Hey, put likable politicians on the ballot and that won't be a problem. |
It's not happening TO US. The United States. |
It's more like - would you really mind if Australia invaded New Zealand? Or Brazil Uruguay? Or one African country another one? Not really. it's not happening to you and it's irrelevant to you, they can sort it out between themselves without casting it as an existential struggle. You are resorting to emotional attacks and pretending anyone who isn't agreeing with you is flawed in some way. And it's really not making anyone like you more or pay attention to what you're saying. |
It's pretty normal to not want a military base so close to your border. I mean the US would be vehemently opposed if Mexico wanted to join a former Warsaw pact and put their military base in, say, Tijuana. |
What diplomatic efforts has the West made, exactly, to prevent the war? |
Sanctions |
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Of course Russia will lose.
No country in the world could fight against 75% of the rest of the world supplying weapons and has an unstoppable land bridge to move weapons in. There is zero chance for Russia is the weapons keep flowing in. Hell, if nato pumped weapons into Russia they could take out China. Logistics wins wars, always has, always will. |
LOL |
You’re perfectly entitled to be scared. Everyone else can see the right thing is to back an ally who was attacked. It shores up our alliances with countries that represent the “free world”. If you hadn’t noticed the world is increasingly drifting into multipolarity. You’ve got western nations and you’ve got authoritarian ones and the chasm is widening. Your stance of cowering in place and not helping choose democracy doesn’t bode well long term for the US. I’m sorry you don’t grasp that or see that basically donating 1/100th the amount of our yearly defense budget and, mostly, our older outdated equipment to help battle this force of raging drunk, brutal dunces is a good investment for both our soft and hard power. Again, we all want peace, but we are also America. We are a bastion of hope. |
It’s not really the US’s job to “prevent this war”. It was a unilateral attack on Ukraine from an aggressor (Russia). You sound like a propaganda bot spewing Kremlin-fed reasoning. Essentially, that being that the war was “provoked” and “unpreventable” because of something Ukraine did. Ukraine did nothing wrong. So the only preventable thing would have been Russia not invading. All they want is land, grain, access to the Black Sea, etc. It’s so obvious Putin wants to recreate the USSR. The free world order smartly didn’t stand by and just allow that power grab. |
I don't care what I sound like to you. Someone upthread said 'you can’t blame Russia’s war of choice on lack of diplomatic efforts by the West." I merely asked what these efforts were. |
That's not true, though. The US maintains close, amiable relationships with the worst authoritarian regimes in the world. There is no daylight between the US and, for instance, the Arab Gulf dictatorships. What is your evidence that the chasm is widening? Make the case for the Russia-US stand if you must but don't pretend it's a global struggle of authoritarianism vs. democracy because that's not supported by facts. |
You sound insufferably pompous. And also wrong. |
Dp- you’ve been asleep for the last decade of you haven’t noticed China and Russia becoming for authoritarian and more aggressive. |
Nice try rewriting history. We all saw it go down. It is not normal to amass over 100 k troops on the border in the guise of military training and to later bomb large swathes of your neighboring country while denying well documented accounts of systematic brutality against civilians and non military infrastructure targets. Putin is a war criminal. This war is illegal and immoral. |