As a U.S. Navy enlistee during the Cold War, I support low, but active, military operations. Most casualties occur in training or normal operations. Most medical breakthroughs occur because of war.
For example, the pacemaker and defibrillators developments resulted from wartime injuries. Both are made in Buffalo, NY.
Prosthetics developed fron IEDs are treating thousands of victims of Worldwide Terrorism—among many others.
Constant innovation is being made by the so-called Military-Industrial complex. The Free World should support such advances. Taxpayers such as myself won’t complain as long as Communism is kept from our door.
If you’d taken the time to review Ukraine videos in peacetime, you might find it resembles the bucolic life of rural USA—circa 1955. Review videos of modern Ukraine Independence parades, and you’d see patriotism not seen in the USA since 1955.
Look to the “Democratic” Party to become “THE” Party, and make sure that doesn’t happen. We have to fight domestic enemies as well—and they’re “at the gates”.
Russia deserves a drubbing—and my U.S. Navy compatriots support it.
I should add, that a video review of today’s parades in Moscow has Russian flags at the front of every column, and red Soviet flags bringing up the rear.