Yes we can. Yes yes yes. We already did, in Vietnam. American soldiers lost their lives to soviet pilots, anti aircraft batteries, and more.
Learn the lesson of Sudetenland and Vietnam.
The lesson there is we had enough self control to pretend it didn’t happen and put us on a path of escalation that ends the fucking world.
Do you think Putin has that level of self control? Hell do you think Biden has that level of self control?
And that’s why we MUST NOT put boots on the ground in Ukraine.