Oh so I am not to throw out rude cheap shots but you can? Nice.
So unless we are willing to go to war with everyone around the world we disagree with we are groveling weaklings? We are a sovereign country. We are not world police. We used to know that.
Defect? People on this thread need to burn their old spy movies. I neither love nor hate Russia. But posters on this thread are to Russia as Muslims are to Jews. It requires no real argument to hate them. They are permanently bad.
Even if I thought the conflict was entirely Russia’s fault I still would not see it as our place to intervene. If we spread ourselves all around the world we cannot be strong enough to fight the battles we MUST win. Take ISIS out of the land of the living. Don’t be so cozy with China. Lots of issues I would place ahead of Russia.
Where is the money going to come from? We already have a debt we cannot pay off and battles we have to fight and a military that has been cut way way back.
Remember back when we let the world be at war and did nothing until we were bombed by Japan? Well that was too slow to react. But these days people are way too quick to react.
I am finished with this hateful thread.
The only thing hateful is the policies Putin pursues. If you show up to tell everyone not to have schadenfreude as his policies implode the economy and his paranoid Russian chauvinism is exposed for the cheap scape goating that it always is, you’re going to get some reminders that you’re misreading our delight. If it comes that there is a war, it will be because of Putin, not because we choose to self censor or turn a blind eye to his cruel and reckless adventurism that’s caused all of this grief.
Glad you don't get to decide which battles we must win and which battles we can just roll over and die from.
It seems to me you and Obama are in agreement on at least two battles.