“...The world is not ours to remake.” [Pining_4_TX, post 28]
A precious moral sentiment. Americans are far too inclined to believe it. If we do not remake things, others will. Are we so sure we will like the results of that?
The United States was a trading nation before it became a formally sovereign, independent nation. Stray remarks by the Founders notwithstanding, trading nations cannot be isolationist.
The time to intervene is before things get really bad. The dire situations that developed in World War One, and then World War Two, should give us a hint.
But too many Americans are too enamored with their own moral state to notice. Conservatives pride ourselves on being realistic; we should be leading the way on incidents like this, not congratulating ourselves on our moral prissiness while opting out.
Citing past incidents where intervention did not end well is excuse-mongering of the most puerile variety.
There is never going to be another war like WWII. This is the age of nukes and drones, not land tank battles. Proxy wars are the order of the day and they resolve nothing but at great cost to the small nations where they are fought. The Ukraine is of no importance to the US.
Europe is committing suicide by 3rd world immigration and Islam. Russia is the least of their problems. NATO should have been dissolved long ago.