Russia threatening to nuke us is “not our business”? History shows us that projecting weakness just invites more aggression.
You missed my point.
If Russia is directly threatening to nuke us, that is between us and Russia.
Who put the US in charge of the Ukraine that they feel they can “give permission” for the Ukraine to take any military action they deem necessary? Can’t the Ukrainians think and act for themselves? Do we have to hold their hands while they wait for our “permission”?
Besides, it’s not our war and if we had stayed out of it, Russia wouldn’t have any reason to be threatening us.
There is immense strength shown in the practice of patience. We pay a lot of money to our ambassadors, we have a lot of money to bribe, cajole and reward. Violence begets violence, not peace.
The ONLY reason there was a time of peace after WW2 was not because of power or fear. It was a time to rebuild, and nobody had the infrastructure to oppose Pax Americana. At least not until the Soviets and the Chinese (Mao and Stalin) probed the limits of our patience. We spent treasure and blood trying to contain them, and more popped up. We won the ability to conduct an endless war in the name of uniformity.
Isn’t it time we returned home and rebuilt the US? Lay down our arms in the world, and build the capability to do what we had to do in #2?
Today, we couldn’t oppose German forces if they were as they were in the 1940’s. We could pound them into dust, but only until our bankers decided to cut off our streams of revenue and parts.
We are a cardboard power, we were sliced and diced by box cutters, yet still pretend to be as strong as iron, and as deep as our former Faith.
I love this country, but it is a time to retrench, to build friendships and put up borders and barriers to tyranny and invasion of home and hearth. That includes placing the LGBTQueers back in a box, and kick the blm movement back to the gates of hell where it was birthed. FIRST things first. Clean up government, and hang the traitors.