Yes earlier on I did believe that the biggest threat to our involvement would be economic, as this has continued coming on two years my bigger fear has become us becoming directly involved in another European war
My son has not joined the military. No I would not be comfortable attacking Mexico, but I think an argument could be made that the cartels are a very serious threat particularly to the border states
I am not missing your point, and while I respect your point of view and share your hope that none of our sons get involved, I just believe you are wrong.
If we continue to push and this gets worse and goes kinetic for this country, I hope that some of y'all that have advocated continued action will take my son's place
With military bases in over 130 countries and remaining in Europeover 75 years after WWII and roughly 30 years after the wall came down, we have a long way to go to reach the levels of isolationism that I pine for
I have seen that attributed to him by analysts, and he has said that he would go after those that interfere, I took that to mean employing troops in theatre.
Y'all seem to think he is threat to us; I don't see it that way. I have yet to see how the Ukrainian situation is an existential threat...
Nope fighting the last war is thinking that after Putin gets done with Ukraine and we don't stop him then he is going after the rest of the former Communist Bloc/Europe. Imagining that Putin wants to retore the gory of the former Soviet Union by reacquiring all of its former Warsaw Pact territory.
I would agree with you that Americans and other parts of the world see things differently. and while a Somali and an American will view things through a different lens I am not sure that I would subscribe that to the same level with regard to Russia.
He is not in an al-out war, that would require the USA to put boots on the ground because the Europeans for all their hawkish talk cannot even fund their militaries.
The West is using the Ukes as cannon fodder and all we have really accomplished is pushing China and Russia closer together...
Do you honestly believe that the Russians are going to risk an all-out war with the entire West? I don't. I also do not believe that this is cheap medicine.
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