“So you provoke and escalate with no idea how to finish what you started. Truman made the same mistake in Korea. LBJ did the same in Vietnam. And now Biden in Ukraine. You ideologues never think these things through, from means to endstate, and you always repeat the same mistakes over and over and never learn anything. NEVER.”
It’s because they think in fair and unfair, like children do. Life isn’t fair. If an army takes your land, and you fail to defend or reclaim it, it is no longer yours. It becomes theirs, and there’s nothing you can do about it. History repeats that you only keep what you can defend.
People like to think might doesn’t make right, when that’s not even the issue.
The issue is domination.
Resisting an armed invasion and large-scale land seizure is not "provocation" or "escalation."
Assisting a friendly sovereign nation against a massive military invasion is likewise not "provocation" or "escalation."
Regards,