“If we send in American boots on the ground, we damned well better be negotiating American Land as the thing to fight for.”
No need to put Americans in Ukraine. The Ukrainians are killing the invaders just fine.
Maybe. I have my doubts that they can regain the 1994 borders and get their hands on those 2012 oil & gas reserves. Plus, all that damage to their country — How do we get Russia to pay reparations?
If we had 3 nice long emBASEees along the Ukraine/Russia border it might be worth our while to go in. I like Trump’s approach to other nations: “Bomb the shiite out of them and take their oil to pay for it.”
Considering the cost in lives, and the truly massive amounts of money we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 20 years, the cost to the U.S. of opposing Russian expansionism in Ukraine is one of the biggest bargains in history.