“I wonder how those in the 101st feel about dying to preserve Ukraine’s borders? I doubt they’ll be happy about it.”
Yet, we did just that in WWII (only then it was Europe’s borders, not just one country’s). Germany wasn’t going to invade the US, or threaten our borders. So, by your logic, the US never should have been involved in the ETO during WWII: We should have just concentrated on the Pacific theater.
Or we could have just let the Nazis and Soviets beat each other senseless, then the US and the Brits could have swept in after we took care of Japan.
Your analogy is ridiculous, we weren’t going to allow the Soviets to control all of Europe because it wouldn’t have been in our interest. We don’t have ANY interest in the Donbas or Crimea worth going to WW3 for.
Besides the MAJORITY of the people living in those areas voted to either be part of Russia or be independent. That should have been enough of a reason to have settled this by negotiation. But the US wanted war, that is the reality. Quit pretending that Russia wasn’t deliberately provoked into this war by the US and their puppet Zelensky.