The question our president must consider is whether saving Georgia is worth war with Russia, possibly nuclear. Thank goodness we have a president who understands these things. The Russian imperative in keeping a military threat from its back door is the same as ours was in October, 1962. We were willing to risk nuclear destruction to protect that imperative, as the Russians are now. We Americans are too often guilty of thinking of wars as events that we participate in in foreign countries, but we have to consider the reality of fighting the next one in our own front yard.
The question our president must consider is whether saving Georgia is worth war with Russia, possibly nuclear.”
Hardly. The question goes not to the US President, but the President of Georgia and his people. They will fight for their democratic sovereignty when bullied by the Russian hegemon. Of course this wont escalate to nuclear war, but it sure coudl escalate to the biggest Russian blunder since their Afghan misadventure of the 1980s.
“The Russian imperative in keeping a military threat from its back door is the same as ours was in October, 1962.”
Hardly. the Russians incited this mini-war with the specific goals of bringing former USSR back together, bit by bit. Its a re-imperialism agenda.
“We Americans are too often guilty of thinking of wars as events that we participate in in foreign countries, but we have to consider the reality of fighting the next one in our own front yard.”
We are all georgians now. If you think about what would WE do if a country invaded our land ... that’s what the Georgian Govt and people would do. Defend it at all costs.