“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.
If I were President, I would tell Europe — “Act like men and stop crying to us to protect you from a bully that is less than a third your size.” Europe just wants to relax and not have any consequences for their actions, like spending nothing on defense. Until they start getting scared that they will experience some consequences, they will carry on. That are like lazy gigolos lolling around our mansion and then asking us to get in a brawl with some outlaw motorcycle gang they owe money to.