Robert DeLong:
"More educational material for you to digest
Perhaps this might open your eyes to see the economic reality this nation is facing, and that you are literally helping in the demise of this nation." Thanks, but I don't think I need lessons in what's wrong with the USA these days.
There's no doubt Democrats are driving us down into a hole as deep as they possibly can, a hole that will be very difficult for even the best Republican leadership to climb out of.
And I think, perhaps, you might understand the Democrats' thought process, or how Democrats' brains work.
They are eager to jump into wars, from Korea to Vietnam to Kosovo and Iraq, maybe because they think it's mostly Republicans who will be fighting & dying there.
But once the going gets tough, then they are just as eager to advocate for American defeat and withdrawal, as most recently in Afghanistan, so that they can glory in America's reduction in stature & status as the world's leader.
Today Democrats are in their "let's go to war" phase in Ukraine, but you can be certain they will abandon that the moment they can figure out a way to blame Republicans for their defeat.
The result will be America's standing in the world suffers serious additional damage, and there's no way to predict how long it will take good leadership to repair.
Regardless, the real actor here is Vlad the Invader, who has chosen to make war against Europe and the West, while taking on China as his economic and military ally.
The results will not be to our liking in any case, but will be far worse if Vlad succeeds in Ukraine.
That is my whole argument, in a nut-shell. ![]()
Thanks, but I don't think I need lessons in what's wrong with the USA these days.
Apparently you do since you once stated that the debt may be a problem. There is no may about it, and you are only increasing that problem by supporting the creation of more debt to fund, not only the war, but the day-to-day finances of Ukraine. A foreign nation that is no better, in reality, than the nation they are fighting.
So, why do you insist on saddling the families of America with more debt? Especially our children who are already having a hard time making a life for themselves as it is. They will be the first generation that will not see a better life than their parents. This is the result of our our current & past acts of adventurism have created for the children of this nation. What a great disservice we have done, and I for one feel horrible that our continued mis adventurism, at their expense, has done to them.
The result will be America's standing in the world suffers serious additional damage, and there's no way to predict how long it will take good leadership to repair.
That is happening because we are embroiled in this conflict. Continuing down this path, only increases our debt, as well as, weakening ourselves even more so. Furthermore, it increases that time needed to repair the damage, that grows with each passing day of our involvement.
If Republicans start rejecting continued involvement, then the Democrats are faced with either joining, or continuing on their own. If they choose the latter, then they become the owners of the results.
In the meantime, our refusal to seek a peaceful settlement before Putin launched the invasion, has opened the door for China to make inroads by being the one to broker a peaceful resolution, that we had refused to do from the start.
You facilitated this opening with your insistence to not seek out a resolution prior to invasion, and then after invasion taking the stance that entirely blames Putin, when there were indeed extenuating circumstances you chose to ignore. You also chose to ignore that Putin went in very soft in the beginning. Which may have been a last ditch attempt to give the U.S., one final chance to intervene to provide a resolution to the conflict. Instead, you took this as a sign of Russia's weakness, thus stoking the notion that we were winning this conflict and that we need to make the most f this opportunity. Problem is, that none of the NATO aligned nations really wanted to fight this proxy war, except for the U.S. & this administration in particular.
You failed to recognize it as the cluster-**** that it was then & eventually would become even more so, the more it was escalated & expanded in size & scope.
The failed to take the ineptness of this administration into consideration, even after seeing the debacle that was carried out in Afghanistan. None of this ever even played a part in your thinking to give pause. You just blindly rushed in supporting this conflict with the sole justification of; Putin invaded Ukraine. Your support for our involvement, only furthers the erosion of our nation's strength & abilities. The attitude you adopted was, consequences be damned regarding our involvement in yet another protracted war, because you failed to think what our involvement would result in if we lost yet another conflict. A conflict that was doomed to fail on so many levels, which you refused to take into consideration, because bravado consumed you clouding your thinking.
We are now facing what we should do next.
Do we offer up a peace plan ourselves?
Do we make the decision to get more involved by sending our men, women, along with the transgenders, into the conflict to salvage our reputation around the world?
How many are you willing to sacrifice?
Are you willing to take it to the nuclear stage if need be?
When will you wake up & realize that this is evil at work?
When will you stop supporting the evil that is destroying our good name, along with our nation?
None of you cheerleaders ever took any of this into consideration at all. As I have said before, emotions tend to exacerbate problems, not resolve them. Using your brains might have avoided all of this. Sadly, that was not done.