My actual view is that this crack-up was from a geostrategic or geopolitical perspective inevitable. The global financial empire was pushing ever relentlessly east towards the Russian border, and the Russians are paranoid about foreign invasion from the North, South, East and West. They think they have their own culture and their own ways. We kept thinking what they really wanted was a MickeyDs in every neighborhood.
I am a realist. Reality sucks. It's one of those places that have always been a mess because they are borderlands to competing geopolitical forces. My other view is that it is long past time that the US put its resources into our own people's interests and stop trying to become an Asian land power. It's a role that sucks. We are watching how messy it is before our eyes. I can't say it's not our circus because our clowns helped organize the mess and sold tickets.
Pretty much agree with your assessment. As far as meddling with world affairs we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t. I sure hope this thing ends soon. If it spreads, things could get out of hand fast. I think I see the US going in an isolationist direction. We can produce our own energy and food so I think we’ll be OK, our debt on the other hand is a problem I don’t see an answer for.
You are very well learned and a thinking man on Rooskies vs Ukraine. You display yourself as neutral on this, and screw both corrupted regimes. The hole in your libertarian logic is this:
If Russian wins to dominate Ukraine, then CCP will follow soon after, by taking Taiwan and TSMC. Do you know what TSMC is? And no cheats via a Google lookup! ! ! !
There’s lots of guilt to go around here to go along with the sadness for those there who, just like us here, are simply doing their best to work around it all and live a normal life.
It all makes me happy that my family ancestors bailed on Europe and the perpetual family feuding and came here.
If only we here could honor President Washington’s thoughts about avoiding foreign entanglements and the Constitutional requirements about a maintaining a secure border.
We’d be a better nation for it and a much better neighbor, too. If only …