Anything beyond sanctions and “selling” arms would escalate things and put us on that WWIII path.
***You guys never learnt the lesson of Sudetenland. Appeasement just leads to encouraging the tyrant aggressor and ya end up with 50-60Million dead as a result.
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I think we should, and we should be providing boots on the ground as well. The Russians killed Americans during Vietnam and Korea. This is not much different. Especially since the Russians, Ukrainians, and USA signed a sovereignty/borders agreement with Ukraine and this invasion is the second violation of that agreement.
I’m fine with sending US troops to the western part of Ukraine to free up Ukes to fight in the east. And we could just set up volunteers to go and fight in the eastern portion if they wanna. And if we send in American boots on the ground, we damned well better be negotiating American Land as the thing to fight for. Big, sweeping American EmBASEees along the border between Russia and Ukraine. A Lend Lease project. Americans fighting for American land. For generations we could use that land to build airports and fight terrorism in that region. I would call it the BBudapest AAgreement LLend LLease program because it would take BALLs.
from my home page
I have been advocating for several years a policy I call ‘embaseees’. Embassy + AirBase —> EmBASEeees. We go into a terrorist country, clear out their taliban equivalent, then withdraw to very large Embassies, perhaps 3 of them. Have them big enough to encompass a military airbase where we can use it for decades on end to conduct anti-terrorism operations. As long as the ‘host’ country aint killing Americans then we let them have self-sovereignty. Kind of like how we operated in the Phillipines for decades. We could even have an intermediate zone that we patrol but it would be autonomous. Let them have their taste of freedom. A referendum every 10 years to see how large the boundaries of the intermediate autonomous zone should be.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4043681/posts
We can’t. Cannot have 2 nuclear power shooting at each other. No. No. NO! Especially not when Putin is in charge of 1. He’s too petulant, and probably a massively sore loser.