I'm no war hawk but isn't it easier to deal with the situation before they reclaim the land?
Me neither, I am in analytics but I do know this: you must pick a long-term strategy first with another major nuclear power. The Russians see us like the Nazis saw us in 1930.
The USA is bankrupt as a nation. If you don’t know this by now you need to do some homework. Ignorance will get you killed and not too far off either. That is not an insult, I don’t want to see one American die for lack of information. Bankrupt nations have no options but to begin a defensive posture for a time. There are low budget ways that are highly effective at bankrupting superpowers. We used such methods on the Soviets in 1989 and they used it on us in 2001. When you study and get to the end game of such affairs you realized we should have used a low kiloton nuke on in Afghanistan and found Bin Laden later. Too late for that now and now we are bankrupt. But we’ll recover and help our allies.