America is done being the world police. The EU has over three times the population and even more times the money than Russia does. If they want to fight about Ukrainian, no one is holding them back.
This is not a matter for the USA to get involved in.
“America is done being the world police. The EU has over three times the population and even more times the money than Russia does. If they want to fight about Ukrainian, no one is holding them back.
This is not a matter for the USA to get involved in.”
I agree, I really don’t see what is in it for us to get between Russia and the Ukraine.
Do we want Crimea? No
Do we have a defense pack with the Ukraine? No
As far as I can tell no, so getting involved would at best be to help reinforce some screwed up notion of global order to be imposed upon all other party’s and payed for by we the overburden Taxpayer.
To be blunt there is nothing in the Ukraine for us, worth the cost of getting involved. I suspect the EU will make the same judgement even thou this aggression takes place right on their door step. Just like they have done other time.
Althou if I were them I would strengthen Nato and do some military exercises to make sure Putin knows we will defend our own.
“This is not a matter for the USA to get involved in.”
It is certainly the matter for the US to get involved in.
Just not with troops. Russia is a national security threat (it amazes me that the isolationist fringe of the conservative movement repeatedly asks, “what is our national interest?”, or more ignorantly state, “we have no security interest”)
Russia is an historical enemy. It supports the Iranian and other rogue nations with ballistic missile technology and other inflammatory systems. More importantly, due to its recent weakness in geopolitical and economic interactions it has become more totalitarian, more oppressive and more aggressive toward its border states. ** Nations are moving away from Russia, not to align with the West or the EU, but to get protection from a desperate Russia.
There are a multitude of non military avenues to punish Russia for its illegal actions and annexation.