By the same token we spent ten years and 58000 American lives in Vietnam as we were told if we didn’t stop the communists there the dominoes would fall all across Asia.
It turned out to be a civil war and our side lost anyway.
Nearly the same thing just happened in Afghanistan.
Nothing cowardly or unpatriotic about taking a step back in Ukraine. In fact its wise.
Britain would have been wise to make clear it had no real interests east of the Rhine. They might kept a sort of empire and counted for something internationally. As it was Churchill told Alabrooke in May 1945, ‘I never in my life been so worried over affairs in Europe’. The UK helped Stalin emerge from defeat by destroying Germany and destroying the great in Great Britain and for what? Take your honor and see if you can buy a cup of coffee with it. People who bleat about honor in international relations are either deluded fools or conmen who want someone else to spend resources or blood for their interests.
So you’re saying that Putin is literally Hitler.
Funny, that's the same scary tune the "Biden band wagon" folks have been singing since February. Reality is somewhat different - the Ruskie "clown car" army couldn't even take Kiev, let alone Warsaw. Maybe it's time to find a new bogeyman...
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