You live in a country which is in dent to it’s eyeballs. The US Treasury will soon paying out TRILLION dollars every year in interest payments due to interest rates going up. You live essentially in a bankrupt country but you still want to fight more foreign wars with MORE BORROWED MONEY? DO you realize how stupid that is?
So now you’ve shifted from “let the bully win cause money”. Any excuse for surrender is still surrender.
The simple fact is we kept letting Putin get away with it. At some point he was going to cross a line we had to fight. That’s the nature of bullies. Ukraine. Latvia. Poland. Norway. He wasn’t going to stop.