[BroJoeK]

Reverend Wright: "Zeepers in July 1914:
“I stand with Serbia !”"

In 1914, the Russian Empire stood with Serbia against the invasion by Austria-Hungary.
Germany saw Russia's partial mobilization as a threat and so Germany declared war on... France! and invaded... Belgium!
The Brits didn't care in the least about Serbia and were determined to stay the h*ll out of it, until Germans marched into Belgium and then Brits felt obliged by treaty to come to Belgium's defense.
And so it went, the war gathering ever more steam...

None of that resembles what we are looking at today.

What does most resemble today are the events in the mid to late 1930s, beginning with:

1. 1931 Imperial Japan invaded China, "not our war"

2. 1936 Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia, "not war"

3. 1936 Nazi Germany occupied the Rhineland and in 1938 invaded Austria, "not our war"

All of those were "not our wars" until suddenly they all became our war, at the overall costs of circa 75 million lives and untold trillions (est. $72 trillion) of dollars, in today's $ equivalents.
That is a basic lesson of history that, after 1945, everyone understood, and nobody needed to be reminded of until just the past few years.

[Reverend Wright]

“In 1914, the Russian Empire stood with Serbia against the invasion by Austria-Hungary.
Germany saw Russia’s partial mobilization as a threat and so Germany declared war on... France! and invaded... Belgium!
The Brits didn’t care in the least about Serbia and were determined to stay the h*ll out of it, until Germans marched into Belgium and then Brits felt obliged by treaty to come to Belgium’s defense.
And so it went, the war gathering ever more steam...

None of that resembles what we are looking at today. “

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The alliances and treaties pulled everyone into a small Balkan war, and made it a continent wide European war.

NATO will pull everyone into a small Eastern Europe war, and make it a global war.

[rxh4n1]

Sigh. This is just another stupid ethnic border war. Not worth a cent of our taxpayer dollars or the lives of our kids. It is certainly not our war. You’re so concerned, go volunteer. Ukraine is taking foreign volunteers. Don’t send my kids.