You just trashed your whole argument. You say there is no NA in Africa then give one.
you say there is no NA in south America as tens of thousands of their people fleeing communism there pass through Mex and come here illegally.
you call nation building a folly (rightly) then continue to argue for nation building in the Ukraine.
Oil flow there matters to Europe. Not to us. We are awash in oil. We just are denied it by dems using it as an excuse to go to war with Russia.
Where exactly has Russia confronted us at ANY time? We go to them hat in hand often asking their permission to do all kinds of things in that hemisphere. If they tell us to FOAD, that isn’t a confrontation THEY initiated.
“You just trashed your whole argument. You say there is no NA in Africa then give one.”
Those stores of chromium are secure. So, it is a stable free market. No national interest, unless that situation would change.
“you say there is no NA in south America as tens of thousands of their people fleeing communism there pass through Mex and come here illegally.”
That is a domestic issue that I’m sure we agree on. We could stop the flow if we wanted to, from our side of the fence. The elites in both Parties do not wish to. It is not a foreign policy issue, though.
“you call nation building a folly (rightly) then continue to argue for nation building in the Ukraine.”
I don’t think you will find me arguing for nation building. Financial aid is not nation building. Nation building implies a comprehensive and hands on approach. We give little to Ukraine.
“Where exactly has Russia confronted us at ANY time?”
Giving BMD to our allies, provocations to artificially inflate the price of energy worldwide. Alliances to oppose the US. Cuba, Venezuela, N.Korea, Syria, Iran, to name a recent few. Espionage, spying, subversion. Consistently agrees to treaties and then violates them. etc. etc.