1/ $780 billion a year is our military budget. We invaded Iraq although it never did anything to us. We stayed in Afghanistan at least 10 years longer than we needed to, doing nothing to bolster a democratic government.
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2/ Yet now, with Ukrainians at risk of being slaughtered en masse by a madman, there’s not more we could do and could have done to help them defend themselves?

Feb 25, 2022 · 4:24 PM UTC

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I'm thinking that the US and Europe should have been taken a different approach on diplomacy. Biden should have been more about stopping this from happening as opposed to posturing to prove to Republicans that he's tough. Recognition of no NATO for Ukraine, the starting point.
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Your manufacturing consent. Stop. We didn't do diplomacy when we should have. That's on us.
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What better way to remove the “Ukrainian Problem” than to give it to Putin? WW3 would be the only result of us actively entering into the conflict.
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Yes ... We have this 3/4 billion dollar a year war machine that is currently ... IMPOTENT ... so what good is it?
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What?!
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the issues is we don’t believe Putin to be a rational actor: i.e., he will use nukes if we get involved.
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I forgot to mention in my last post about Sean Penn. I think he may also have some family/personal issues that drive the whole Ukraine event and his filming potential atrocities. Surprised he would actually get in harms way -- still a war zone. Ukraine has a sorted history
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Dems, can't live with them..etc.
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Winding down multi-ethnic empires very hard. Habsburgs, Ottomans, Tsarist Russia. Ukraine not settled in 1917. Its borders were set by Stalin and Khrushchev, not by language or ethnicity. Not settled in 1991 either. US has only exploited all this to hit Russia; didn't help at all
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