American Isolationism in the 1930s..The isolationists were a diverse group, including progressives and conservatives, business owners and peace activists,

United States Department of State ^ | Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute

[daniel1212]

I pick “America First”. If it’s a vital national interest to intervene, to spend our blood and treasure, then intervene. Otherwise, stay out and mind our own business. WW1: out WW2: in Korea: tough call Vietnam: out Afghanistan: quick in, then out Iraq: out Ukraine: out

Yet all are related. WW1 helped prepare the US for WW2 (wars, as horrible as they are, yet accelerate advancement of technology), which, much due to the amount of aid to the Soviets under Stalin (and his spies), much enabled proxy wars for the past 80 years. As well as the Space Race and the technology that resulted. (Not the we need it all, except due to competition.)

Butterfly effect at work.

Your mileage may vary. Just my two cents. Which ain’t worth much given Biden’s inflation.

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[Chad C. Mulligan]

Is Putin like Hitler? Will he really invade country after country if he’s not stopped in Ukraine?

Answer is YES if you bother to read the scribblings of Aleksandr Dugin, popularly known as "Putin's Brain". This guy would be considered a nutcase here, but in Russia he co-authors books with high-ranking army generals and is an officially appointed advisor to the Duma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

[Bratch]

[Reily]

Agree!

[Paal Gulli]

Billy Mitchell, Wernher von Braun, and Hyman Rickover collectively made isolationism suicidally stupid.

Our entire “nuclear triad” system of deterrence is based on their creations but their work also gave America’s enemies the capability to annihilate our cities from thousands of miles outside the US. And all you need do to create mortal enemies is to be top dog.

Particularly in the 21st Century world, we already have unavoidable foreign entenglements due to the uneven geographic distribution of strategically-critical natural resources. Not to be engaged abroad would be to fall behind in the capabilities those resources support.

The “yellow cake” for Little Boy came from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The titanium for the A-12/SR-71 came from the USSR itself. Key ingredients for touch-screens and jet engine impellers comes from OCONUS.

At the risk of getting all misty-eyed, sometimes you gotta get by with a little help from your friends. And not everybody is going to like everything you do, especially when they’re think you’ve set out to dominate the planet.

[mac_truck]

popularly known as "Putin's Brain"

Is that you Conde? 😂

[daniel1212]

At the risk of getting all misty-eyed, sometimes you gotta get by with a little help from your friends. And not everybody is going to like everything you do, especially when they’re think you’ve set out to dominate the planet.

And if the USSR or any other commie nation were the sole nuke super power then they would subjugate the world. But the Woke warriors want to ideologically do that.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Conservat1]

True