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No, it’s far better to stop the scumbag Russian thieves on the Dneiper than it is to have to kick them out of Berlin again.

You want us to send ships and troops into the Black Sea? And then fight a war in Russia's backyard?

Something wrong with that? You saying that the USA can’t win a war?

I can not recommend to your notice measures for the fulfillment of our duties to the rest of the world without again pressing upon you the necessity of placing ourselves in a condition of complete defense and of exacting from them the fulfillment of their duties toward us. The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of human events, they will forever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.

— George Washington, 5^th Annual Address to Congress

Not to rush in blindly of course, but to continue to cultivate the reputation that Brandon branded on us is folly and destructive to our national security.

“You want us to send ships and troops into the Black Sea? And then fight a war in Russia’s backyard?”

Did I say that? No, I did not. So stop acting like a liberal who makes things up and then gets outraged over them.