I fully agree that the insanity at our border should be immediately prioritized with whatever resources are required to seal it. But that doesn’t mean we can’t also help a sovereign nation defend itself against a hostile takeover from a ruthless aggressor that is hellbent on ending the era of democracy, especially since the U.S. is treaty-bound to do so (see the Budapest Memorandum).
This is exactly right. Except I’ve read that it’s actually closer to 5% of the U.S.’s annual budget. And for that amount, we are drastically weakening the military power of a victimhood-poisoned enemy bent on U.S. destruction—and without losing any American soldiers.
But they are usually about an exclusive kind of eros-driven love. If more of them were about the philia and agape types of love instead, then maybe we would have more social harmony.
No, I’m not at all. I view Hitler’s agenda as among the most evil blights that’s ever gone mainstream. But I want to ask you this: Even if 50 percent of the UKR military were white supremacists (in actuality, it’s less than 1 percent (and comparable to the rate in most western militaries)), would that justify Russia’s war of aggression on their west-leaning nation?... To hear people like you, who seem otherwise reasonable, make these kinds of argmuments, reminds me of American liberals saying “George Floyd was killed by a cop, therefore let’s abolish the police.” It is honestly discouraging for me to see that people who seem otherwise reasonable, like you, apparently unable to say “Russia is out of line here.” What are your thoughts?
Wow, the incorruptible and vaunted wikipedia says that? The site that could never be infiltrated by armies of Russian trolls says that? Well I’m convinced