[Kevmo]

ponying up the dough to fund Ukraine’s dismantling of the Russian War Machine.
***well said. This money is spent in advance of Americans getting killed doing the same thing 10 years later on some other shore. Cheap Sudetenland 1938 lessons well applied.

I don’t quite know how to characterize your faulty argument: Is it the “Tu Quoque” Fallacy, or the “Demand for Perfection” Fallacy?
***Don’t forget the “a priori” fallacy: We shouldn’t get involved in foreign entanglements therefore we shouldn’t be involved in this one. [regardless of the obvious nuclear nonproliferation consequences]

[alexander_busek]

***Don’t forget the “a priori” fallacy: We shouldn’t get involved in foreign entanglements therefore we shouldn’t be involved in this one. [regardless of the obvious nuclear nonproliferation consequences]

Isn't that essentially the same as "Begging the Question?"

"The reason we shouldn't vote to build this dam is because it would be wrong to build this dam?"

Also known as: Circular Reasoning?

Regards,