Posted on 02/25/2022 7:56:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The armchair generals, the MSM pundits, and the social media experts are debating passionately about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We should fight for Ukraine! We should not fight for Ukraine! Putin will go after all of Europe! Putin wants the entire world!
And so on and so on.
The fact is that most of these people don't know what we'd even be fighting for. Think about it. We didn't know what we were actually fighting for in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and you can see how all that turned out. We thought we did (you know — truth, justice, and the American way). We had to keep communism from spreading. None of our allies in those countries was really interested in that. And if those values are what we consider worth fighting for, then there are lots of other countries we should be invading but haven't.
Why is that? Because we cannot afford to fight every conflict on Earth. We must have more reasons to risk our time, treasure, and troops.
Here's what the Russians are fighting for: in this case, it is more a function of resources than ideology. The Russians want unrestricted access to warmer southern ports, easy access to Western European markets, and a buffer between Russia and NATO, which has foolishly suggested that Ukraine might become a member. Most importantly, Ukraine is the "breadbasket" of the former Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation.
In other words, Russia has strong strategic reasons to want to control Ukraine.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Over half of the world's computer chips are manufactured by Taiwan. It is an $85-billion industry. Taiwan is also a formal ally with whom we have an active defense agreement (unlike Ukraine). Squandering any resources on Ukraine reduces what we have to stand against the Chinese. If the Chinese appear to be moving against Taiwan, the U.S. can put significant pressure on them.
Interestingly, it was accidentally leaked by Chinese media how the CCP plans to respond to the Russia-Ukraine conflict by backing "Russia up with emotional and moral support while refraining from treading on the toes of the United States and European Union," according to Ming Jinwei, a senior editor at the Xinhua News Agency. He added, "In the future, China will also need Russia's understanding and support when wrestling with America to solve the Taiwan issue once and for all."
While the U.S. is playing chess with Putin, the Chinese are playing the ancient and more strategic game of "go" — a game most Americans have never heard of.
Part of keeping Ukraine free is keeping it from China.
When Putin’s stooge was last in charge there he agreed to sell 9% of the country’s farmland (an area the size of Massachusetts) to China.
China is supporting the Russian attack because they will get their share again.
Yea, that is something we should oppose. That is not the number one security priority in regard to China.
Since 1991, the USA has been living in a unipolar world. this power, massive debt and printed Federal Reserve money have made idiot neocons and woke ideologues living in the DC bubble drunk and stupid with arrogance and power. its the sort of thinking that makes you hold a “gay pride week” at your Embassy in Afghanistan, while a month later, you are getting chased out by tribesmen.
Assuming Russia finishes strangling Ukraine, which was pushed into conflict by such people (who have since run away), it will mark the return to a “19th Century World” of power balancing, and true economic and productive power
More than ever, we need an “America First” agenda.
“More than ever, we need an “America First” agenda.”
Yes, we do, but we also have to understand we will not prevail this century without our allies.
1.5 billion Chinese
1.3 billion Muslims
300 million Americans
WRONG Mr. Rowe.
There is no more time to “ward off” anything. Russia is joinging with China to challenge a weak West. NOTHING is going to stop them (except maybe their demographic decline but it’ll take a while).
Weakness invites challenge. Our enemies see it.
China holds all the cards. We now have more debt than GDP.
Which idiot thinks we should fight more foreign wars using credit card?
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