“That said, Trump needs to shut up and stop saying stupid things.”
This is obviously not an ideal time for him to be discussing Russia, but Trump is of course 100% correct. What he said is the only intelligent course to take. It would be pure insanity to start a war with highly nuclearized Russia to force the ethnic Russians of the Crimea to remain under Ukrainian control against their will, even though the Crimea was part of Russia for centuries longer than it was a part of the Ukraine and it was taken away from Russia in the 1950s without the consent of the locals.
When did it become acceptable to potentially put millions of American lives in danger in order to crush the democratic will of foreign people when it is irrelevant to our own interests and safety? That’s the stupid—and extremely dangerous—idea in my opinion.
“This is obviously not an ideal time for him to be discussing Russia, but Trump is of course 100% correct. What he said is the only intelligent course to take. It would be pure insanity to start a war with highly nuclearized Russia to force the ethnic Russians of the Crimea to remain under Ukrainian control against their will, even though the Crimea was part of Russia for centuries longer than it was a part of the Ukraine and it was taken away from Russia in the 1950s without the consent of the locals.”
Ah, historical perspective: there is no substitute.