“I’ll make it plain for you. Everything you believe on this subject is not only just simply wrong, it’s demonstrably and unequivocally wrong.”
I believe Ukraine should be an independent country. You’re saying that’s wrong?
I believe the U.S.A. and NATO violated previously made agreements by encouraging Ukraine to join NATO when they previously agreed not to do that. You’re saying I’m wrong?
“Completely and thoroughly wrong. So entirely and astonishingly wrong. In other words, you’re wrong.”
Look at the two statements I just posted. Now go on and tell me I am wrong on those two points. Go on. Show how few your principles really are.
Ukraine had 31 years to prove it could manage its affairs as a separate nation. It summarily failed, ending up as the most corrupt state in Europe. I’ve stated before I believe it was a mistake to separate it from Russia, because it was an intricate, historical part of it. Other than for the Baltics, there was no way to definitively know how many former Soviet states could be stable, independent nations, as the remainder had been parts of the Russian Empire.
As for American failures, both inwards and outwards, those are legion. NATO, as I’ve also stated, has no business even existing at all. It fulfilled its purpose with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now it’s just a massive warmongering military bureaucracy that we the taxpayers are on the hook for.
We should stay out of European affairs, and most everything else, for that matter. We’ve got too many problems domestically that need our undivided attention. Getting involved in civil wars thousands of miles away is almost inevitably a fiasco.