>>nothing is stopping you from enlisting - and sending your kids to enlist - if you think it’s important that we go to war over Ukraine.
I didn’t say that. I said that America is a weak shell of what it once was and we can’t be the world police anymore. A lot of people wanted that for a variety of reasons and now they shouldn’t complain.
My feelings on the Ukraine thing is that Ukraine was part of Russia up until the last century. Most of the citizens are ethnic Russians. Let Russia have it. It’s not our business.
now they shouldn’t complain.
Who’s complaining? Only people who want us to get involved militarily in a dispute that is of no consequence to us. I can criticize Obama for destroying freedom at home, but I won’t criticize him for being “weak” abroad - if “weakness” means he’s not being stupid by flexing military muscle against the Russians over Crimea. That’s not “weakness,” it’s common sense.
If this thread is typical, it's not so much our military (which can still defeat anyone), it's our people. Our country as a whole barely knows what sacrifice, or even honor and integrity, is. (Some of the military, and a few individuals, not included, of course.)