Posted on 01/20/2022 7:00:39 AM PST by Kaslin
Never again.
Certainly not America’s servicemen. I agree. But guns, bombs, anti-tank missiles, sure. Help the skinny kid to fight the bully. But stay out of the way.
So why does it matter to Americans what happens in Ukraine?
One reason I don’t see listed is that Russia would cut off Hunter’s funding and the Big Guy would loose his 10%.
Everybody knows someone in the 1%-10% of Crapistan who want to Westernize.
For heaven’s sake, back in the day, I liked to patronize Hamid Karzai’s restaurant in Cambridge MA.
And I’m sure there’s a White Russian place somewhere that has dynamite draniki and kletski.
What people really want in Elsewheresville is determined by what they DO, not what they SAY.
What you know about the Anschluß, you probably learned from The Sound of Music.
No more. Never again.
The war is here.
NO! Not one more American son or daughter’s life sacrificed to this old men’s power game. We have NO BUSINESS there just like we have NO BUSINESS in being still entangled with Europe’s fear of the Bear and having to bear the brunt of costs and international bothersome trouble for a continent more Muslim now than anything else. Let Europe deal with it. Let their Union pay for it, make them put their threat words to action and foot the bill for their own European Defense Force. Screw them...
Indeed
I don’t see listed.....Russia would cut off Hunter’s funding and the Big Guy would lose his 10%.
LOL.......
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Not my circus, not my monkeys.
I'm sure we have 20 shipyards that can build a Liberty ship in 4 days, and C5As that can make opposed landings to deliver tanks.
You must be a Putin shill...
Most of the neocons are happy the prisoners are there.
1. The US bailed out Europe in two World Wars.
2. After WWII the US build back manufacturing plants, infrastructure, and much more throughout Europe establishing them as a major competitor of the US.
3. The US has provided Europe with longest time of peace in the history of Europe.(1945 - now)
4. We continue to protect Europe even though they have the resources to protect themselves.
5. Europe is perfectly capable defending itself. (EU and NATO)
6. Since the beginning of the 20th century, our relationship with Europe has all been one-sided - we give, they take; and compensation is neither requested or given.
It is time to withdraw from NATO and turn the Ukraine problem over to the EU - now!!!
I have an idea, let’s worry about our own damn border before we start worrying about Ukraine’s.
Read George Washington’s Farewell Address. Let the Europeans deal with their own issues. No foreign alliances and entanglements for the United States.
World War II ended in 1945, over 70 years ago. If the western Europeans, who collectively have one of the world’s three greatest economies, aren’t willing to defend themselves against Russia by now, it will never happen. We cannot afford to protect countries that won’t protect themselves in perpetuity, nor should we.
“Then again, the Germans were stupid enough to lure the Americans into the first war“
That was fully the Brits. The Germans did not want us in the war.
Utter garbage. Insanity. No.
Totally agree. This line has been used too many times.
Putin has good reason to mistrust the West given the corrupt lot that are currently American and European heads of state, as well as all the alphabet soup of pseudo-governmental agencies that are attempting to exert their powers.
As far as Putin’s supposed longing for the good old communist days, he has a funny way of showing it. Right now he is on a gigantic building project all over Russia restoring or replacing every church and monastery the Soviets destroyed. Marxism and Christianity have never co-existed.
I’m not saying he is a lamb. He is one of those older autocrats who means to keep his nation secure, which is probably even more dangerous to the corrupt West than the USSR ever was.
It pains me to say it, but I finally now oppose use of the US military in any way, outside of in direct self defense, until the American people have rooted out the corruption that has overtake the military’s civilian custodians in government.
If that never happens, so be it. I do not want to live to see my country used as an enabler of evil.
A better solution would be to return Lemberg and its hinterlands to Austria.
They can join the EU, they can have gay pride parades, they can go to Davos, the can be HAPPY - and the rest of the region can rejoin the motherland.
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