We should be doing something, had we acted in 1939 history would have been much different. However, with this “commander in chief” if we do act it will be to help the wrong side.
Russia is not Iraq and will not be conquered in 27 days!
Careful there. In 1914 World War I started because the Great Powers just had to do something. That war would have been avoided if the Great Powers would have just kept out the Austrian-Serbian crisis.
So is the current Russian-Ukrainian situation more like 1939 (action needed) or more like 1914 (stay out of it)? I vote for 1914.
Doing what?
See, “we should be doing something” leads senators and pinheads in the State Dep’t to do some really stupid things. When citizens call them out and say “you’re doing something stupid!” they reply
“Well, you said ‘we should do something!’ and this is ‘something’, so we’re doing it.”
We should be doing nothing at this point, because it is:
a) quite obvious we don’t fully know or understand what is going on,
b) even more obvious we don’t have people in the executive branch right now who understand Putin
c) and it is even more obvious that we have no logistics in place to deal with the Russian threat of shutting off energy exports to western Europe.
In short, we have no good options to “do something.” What is being proposed now is just chum for the western press, and won’t result in anything other than annoying Ivan. It isn’t going to stop anything from happening.
Doing something futile and pointless is the action of the impotent. Doing nothing and maintaining an air of uncertainty over what we’d do is the stronger position.
The only thing we should be doing is watching water seek it’s own level and accepting where it settles.
Do what exactly? Attack Russia?