[fieldmarshaldj]

Not our business, as eyedigress perfectly stated.

[BroJoeK]

fieldfarshaldj: "Not our business, as eyedigress perfectly stated."

True enough, just as I have pointed out several times now, it was "not our business" in

1. 1936 when irredentists marched into the Rhineland (similar to Chechnya), and

2. 1938 when they invaded and annexed Austria (like Georgia)

3. 1938 & 1939 when they invaded and annexed Czechoslovakia (like Ukraine).

Those were all "not our business" not the French, not the Brits nor especially the Americans.
When it finally did become "our business", by then the Nazi war machine had grown so powerful it was impossible to defeat by anything less than a desperate fight by a worldwide alliance and at the cost of tens of millions killed.

Bottom line, historically "not our business" proves unbelievably expensive for us in the longer run.
It's much cheaper to defeat such enemies while they are relatively smaller and weaker.

Our weakness only provokes attacks by bad actors, and that is a permanent fact of human nature, whether we like it or not.