You cannot have it both ways. Either Russia is a powerhouse intent on conquering Europe or it is a half busted out craphole, only slightly less of a craphole than Youycrayne is. In two years, it hasn't conquered the laughable Youcrayne in battle, proving that all that Youkazoidal bullshit about Putin being the next Hitler is just that; fantastical bullshit believed only by old Cold Warriors who are still pissed off that they never got "their war." 'Eff them.Not one cent more for Youcrayne. Not our circus. American tax dollars belong in the US right now, not being filtered into the pockets of foreign and domestic kleptocrats. These two countries/territories have been slugging it out for more than 100 years to one degree or another. Let them have at it. I don't GAF about them nor do most conservatives in the US.
Putin has had his military attacking, since his first day in office. After his swearing in, he flew to Chechnya, and had the Russian Commanders form up. He told them to do whatever it takes to win, and then went down the line and put a knife in each one’s hand.
The next day he invited his so-called “second father”, Anatoly Rakhlin, a lifelong member of the St. Petersburg mafia, to lunch at the Kremlin, to begin the large scale theft, that is reported to have made Putin personally the richest person on Earth, with over $200 Billion in mostly hidden assets.
Chechnya (twice), Georgia, Syria, Libya, Congo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger; Putin has kept his military and covert Military Intelligence (the GRUs “Wagner Group”) busy around the world, conducting armed robberies for him.
He won’t stop, he must be stopped.
If he is allowed to take Ukraine, he will only use the stolen resources for his insatiable greed, and to fund continued aggression. The Ukrainians will be used as the meat waves against his next victim, like the LDR and DPR have been. It is all he does, and he works very hard to undermine, destabilize and weaken America on every front, to clear the path for his continued crime spree.