So the fact that Ukraine doesn’t worry about two countries by cutting off gas and oil to them means that those two countries should care about Ukraine?
Seriously I am really tired of having our children’s future mortgaged to pay for the war in Ukraine, exactly when has the war against communism ever worked out, Korea, Vietnam?
Ukraine has not yet cut off the pipeline through it. That will happen tomorrow.
Hungary has been disrespecting Ukraine now for a couple years, and Slovakia since its election of 2023.
So, which comes first? The cause or the effect. Oh, wait, I know. Putin foreknew that Ukraine would cut off the pipeline and shared this knowledge with Hungary and Slovakia.
Again, the all-knowing Putin resolves what would be a riddle to non-believers in his powers.
Where have we ever defeated communism and how does this affect “our children?”
No, we didn’t win every part of our confrontation with communism, but we overall won the cold war.
The Berlin Wall fell on 9 Nov 1989; and, the Soviet Union fell on 26 Dec 1991.
Today, Bulgara, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia aren’t occupied by the Soviet Union.
Neither are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania, nor most of Georgia, Moldova or Ukraine.
We might say the same about Russia, except it turned away from the path of liberal democratic capitalism under Putin, who considered the fall of the Soviet Union and its vassal states to be the worst event of the last 100 years.
As for Viet Nam, it has moved to a middle ground between communism and capitalism. And, as for Korea, half of that peninsula is doing just fine. From Putin’s perspective, North Korea is the half that is doing fine; and, from the American perspective, South Korea is the half.
In this hemisphere, Cuba is a basket case of a country, as are Nicaragua and Venezuela. But most of Latin America is o.k. and parts of Latin America are going well.
Democracy and capitalism have their problems. But, communism and this new form of authoritarianism that has succeeded communism in Russia are hell.
As for how does our defense affects “our children?” The standard of living in the United States is $65.6K; approx. six times as large as in Russia $10.5K.