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Do you believe Georgia is in the essential interests of the US?

Is their territorial integrity worth a single US life?

How about a US city?

Do you believe Georgia is in the essential interests of the US?

Is their territorial integrity worth a single US life?

What was the Soviet empire collapsed 30 years ago and it's still crashing.

Either their old territories side with the West or the Chinese...

[Do you believe Georgia is in the essential interests of the US?

Is their territorial integrity worth a single US life?

How about a US city?]

The lesson of WWII is that the Sudetenland, an area the size of Maryland, was an essential firebreak in preventing Germany from burning Europe to the ground. And Germany had only a short history of military expansion, having spent most of its existence subjugated by one foreign power or another. Whereas Russia has been an expansionist power for 700 years, since Dmitry Donskoy evicted the Mongols and began Russia’s rampage through Europe and Asia.

The real question is whether their expansion is worth a single Russian life or a single Russian city. Because it will come to that eventually. Russia is not a band of nutty, incompetent religious fanatics - it’s a world-conquering power with a long record of successful acquisitions. In the long run, we will either stop their expansion or be conquered by them.