Posted on 08/06/2023 11:28:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
I have never tried an Impossible Burger
Though I’m open to an occasional black bean burger 🍔
Haven’t had one yet but it sounds not too bad
Dunno
There’s multiple issues here.
1. In an ideal world the USA wouldn’t be involved in propping up EU NATO at all, wouldn’t have agreed to be a signatory to the Budapest Memorandum 30 years ago, and would have vacated its seat on the UN Security Council... and the Russia-Ukraine conflict wouldn’t be on the Federal books (budgetary or politically) at all. But we are where we are because the USA took on the obligations decades ago and no President has said that it’s time to bail out.
2. If Russia can successfully annexe five regions of Ukraine for all manner of vranyo reasons, that’d then mean no matter how internationally agreed a national border is, if just one state decides to redraw the boundaries it can do.
3. By the same token, Russia ,China and the USA and UK all signed security assurances with Ukraine before Russia invaded. If none of the signatories had responded then ALL security guarantee treaties would be completely redundant.
4. So in the grand scheme of things, if you took the “how would America react if Mexico did a Cuba and started hosting Russian missiles” question often posted by the Putinists... If America had done all these things it’d only have three options: redraw its own borders, invade Mexico, or suck it up.
Being the invader doesn’t win you friends, as you can see with Russia having ONLY Chechnya, Eritrea, Belarus and North Korea actively backing their invasion of Ukraine. The majority of BRICS, including China, is not arguing that Russia is right to invade Ukraine; they just don’t like being in the position of having Russia so clearly in the wrong when they’d rather be treating the West as the wrongdoers.
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