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    General Zod

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    Poland borders Ukraine. How close are our borders again?

    Ah, another isolationist. That's adorably naïve in the modern world. Do you think we should just allow Russia to run rampant in Europe and rebuild some pseudo-Soviet Union? Is there some way you think that would somehow benefit us, especially with China becoming a larger and larger threat, and the Obama administration ensuring our military can no longer even contemplate a war on two fronts, as had been the doctrine since the end of WWII?

    What, exactly, are the benefits of isolationism anyway? History shows us that the end result once we inevitably get drawn into a major conflict is thousands and thousands of dead US servicemen who shouldn't have died...because we weren't ready and weren't paying attention because it was "none of our business".
     

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    You really believe that? It's not just material we send in efforts to defend corrupt nations. Name one nation in the last 75 years the U.S. has been successful in nation building? How can we say we can help fix another countries strife when we can't even fix our own?
    We are as corrupt as any nation, if not more so... whats your point?

    Even if my neighbor was a gangster, I'd come over guns out to help if he was getting burglarized... thats a worst case. You are essentially making the excuse you should help your friend because when someone breaks into his house because he speeds sometimes...



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    That goes back to interest. You have to ask yourself, why Ukraine and not Crimea?

    Crimea was part of Ukraine. Obama took the "hands-off" approach you champion and in doing so signaled to Putin that he could do whatever the hell he wanted as long as there was a Democrat in the White House. And you suggest we embrace Obama's strategy as if it's worthwhile.

    Trump, when tested, showed Putin that aggression would be met with aggression and Putin kept quiet while he was President.
     

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    Poland borders Ukraine. How close are our borders again?
    The question boils down to one asked many years ago "who is my neighbor?" It was answered with a story of a man with no cause, paying to care for a stranger who he had every excuse to not even acknowledge...

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    One could say that would be a good use of one if one had one...

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    Good luck getting there, though. Fill it up with JP4 at the corner Valero (or, I suppose, negotiate for it down at the airport...) and you can go 300 miles before you're running on fumes and need to buy another 500 gallons of jet fuel. But why use a tank? We're told that a bunch of unarmed people milling about in the Capitol building constitutes the gravest threat "our democracy" has ever faced. They nearly toppled the government, we're told! Good thing none of them had so much as a bb gun...
     

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    Ah, another isolationist. That's adorably naïve in the modern world. Do you think we should just allow Russia to run rampant in Europe and rebuild some pseudo-Soviet Union? Is there some way you think that would somehow benefit us, especially with China becoming a larger and larger threat, and the Obama administration ensuring our military can no longer even contemplate a war on two fronts, as had been the doctrine since the end of WWII?

    What, exactly, are the benefits of isolationism anyway? History shows us that the end result once we inevitably get drawn into a major conflict is thousands and thousands of dead US servicemen who shouldn't have died...because we weren't ready and weren't paying attention because it was "none of our business".
    I'm old enough to remember Russia's invasion of Afghanistan. Now sure, that was before the fall of the Soviet Union, but then I believe Russia was a bigger threat to us back then than now. Did that really work out well for us? I certainly have no problem with helping out our allies across the world, it just seems it never works out well for America when we meddle in countries that are not our allies. If the end result is WWIII, who wins?
     

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    I'm old enough to remember Russia's invasion of Afghanistan. Now sure, that was before the fall of the Soviet Union, but then I believe Russia was a bigger threat to us back then than now. Did that really work out well for us? I certainly have no problem with helping out our allies across the world, it just seems it never works out well for America when we meddle in countries that are not our allies. If the end result is WWIII, who wins?

    So your position is that the fall of the Soviet Union wasn't good for us? Because that's one of the things their failure in Afghanistan led to.

    As for what Afghanistan turned into, well, that's a result of the US government not doing any nation building and deciding it "wasn't our problem" once the Russians were gone...until it became our problem when they sheltered Al Qaeda. Another win for the "how far away are they?" attitude.
     

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    So your position is that the fall of the Soviet Union wasn't good for us? Because that's one of the things their failure in Afghanistan led to.

    As for what Afghanistan turned into, well, that's a result of the US government not doing any nation building and deciding it "wasn't our problem" once the Russians were gone...until it became our problem when they sheltered Al Qaeda. Another win for the "how far away are they?" attitude.
    How long were we in Afghanistan again? Do you think the Soviet Union would have done a better job had we not gotten involved? It probably would have cost them more to take it and hold it had we let them.

    It's the folly of American politics in thinking we can make the world adopt American values.
     

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    How long were we in Afghanistan again? Do you think the Soviet Union would have done a better job had we not gotten involved? It probably would have cost them more to take it and hold it had we let them.

    It's the folly of American politics in thinking we can make the world adopt American values.

    We were in Afghanistan the way we were specifically because we decided they were not our problem once the Soviets left. We should have gone in diplomatically and helped them get their shit together instead of letting them fall into decades of civil war that allowed a bunch of neo-medieval religious fanatics to take over and eventually get us into military action there - which led to the Biden Bugout clusterfuck, and a source of yet more weapons in the hands of terrorists.

    And you'll notice I never said anything about 'adopting American values". That's not even possible in the middle east, but helping create a stable and non batshit crazy government is. But we were more interested in staying out instead of trying to help them recover from the Soviet folly, and now here we are. Because we took the approach you advocate. We said "and how far away are they from us?" until they fucking flew airplanes into buildings and got us involved militarily instead of diplomatically.
     

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    We were in Afghanistan the way we were specifically because we decided they were not our problem once the Soviets left. We should have gone in diplomatically and helped them get their shit together instead of letting them fall into decades of civil war that allowed a bunch of neo-medieval religious fanatics to take over and eventually get us into military action there - which led to the Biden Bugout clusterfuck, and a source of yet more weapons in the hands of terrorists.

    And you'll notice I never said anything about 'adopting American values". That's not even possible in the middle east, but helping create a stable and non batshit crazy government is. But we were more interested in staying out instead of trying to help them recover from the Soviet folly, and now here we are. Because we took the approach you advocate. We said "and how far away are they from us?" until they fucking flew airplanes into buildings and got us involved militarily instead of diplomatically.
    There was civil strife in Afghanistan long before Russia invaded. Our so called friends in Afghanistan are the ones involved in 9/11. Our idea of helping "them get their shit together" is asking them to adopt our values. While there are many Afghan peoples against the Taliban, it sure didn't take long before they took control of the major areas again after we left.

    All the people of Ukraine are not united either.
     
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    All the people of Ukraine are not united either.

    And you know this how??? Ukraine is as united as any nation can be. Everyone is wearing blue and yellow, or vishvankas or trizubs or sunflowers, or slogan shirts... the invasion helped unite them as UKRAINIANS more than anything else could. Think how patriotic the USA was right after 9/11, but more so.

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    Not sure if this article is accurate but it alleges that the US is muddled with respect to sending the Abrams tanks to Ukraine...

     

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    Not sure if this article is accurate but it alleges that the US is muddled with respect to sending the Abrams tanks to Ukraine...



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    And you know this how??? Ukraine is as united as any nation can be. Everyone is wearing blue and yellow, or vishvankas or trizubs or sunflowers, or slogan shirts... the invasion helped unite them as UKRAINIANS more than anything else could. Think how patriotic the USA was right after 9/11, but more so.

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    Is the Dombas region no longer Ukraine? There are pro Russian Ukrainians as well as anti Russian Ukrainians. Now that's not to say they are equal in the amount of people, but that certainly doesn't make them united in fighting Russia.
     
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