I supported Bush then (I don’t now)
My problem with supporting Ukraine isn’t because I’m an isolationist - it’s because Biden and Obama have been monkeying about with Ukraine internal politics in an attempt to deliberately keep Russia and Putin off balance (which I think is all part of petty payback because Putin rejected Obama and Hillary’s great reset) and Putin pushed back. Putin didn’t move on Ukraine in Trumps years because he was scared of Trump but because Trump assured him that Ukraine wouldn’t be used as a NATO pawn and Trump kept his word. It’s part of the reason they went with the “Trump is a Putin agent” story - Obama has it out for Putin... Not Xi, whos inarguably a greater threat... because Xi is allied with the DNC... but Putin is not...
So what happened when Obama got back into office? NATO pawn and they kept PUSHING - because they knew if Putin invaded they would claim the moral highground - and you saw the propaganda laid thick and heavy here. People STILL replace their US flags with Ukrainian ones in their bios.
And I say - AGAIN - If Putin is such a threat that he’s literally the next Hitler and we supposedly have the moral highground then WE MUST GO TO WAR WITH PUTIN NOW and have boots on the ground in Ukraine.
And if you claim that would be worse than you’ve just idly sucked up the propaganda kool-aid hook, line and sinker.
I have no great quarrel with your view.
I don’t think Putin is Hitler.
I do think Trump did correctly escalate against Putin.
Obama Biden sought to pacify Putin’s aggression.
That was foolish.
I think many reepers here are simply being reactionary and not thinking Ukraine through.
Putin I clearly worse than Zelensky.