To the original question: should we have joined the fight to stop Hitler in 1939, when the Nazis invaded Poland? Before he ruined much of Europe, killed millions of people, and with his Axis buddies took a years-long dump on the world?
You’re fucking RIGHT we should have.
And we should do it now, if that’s what it takes to keep Pooti from following in Der Furor’s blood-and-destruction footsteps.
‘Course, Pootie has gone all Sun King on us - he’s already said ‘don’t interfere, I have nukes!’ So like the wicked witch of the west told us, “these things must be done delicately…”.
Fully agree with you. I think the US is obligated to assist any nation that is not an aggressor and is being invaded, no matter the cost.
Not exactly: the United States isn’t *actually* the world police, nor are they/we OBLIGATED to rush to the aid of any country with a problem. That doesn’t mean we/US never try to have an influence, we did organize NATO in the first place. NATO are obligated to assist any MEMBER nation…it is a mutual defense pact. Regarding other nations, they can, as an organization or as individual nations, choose to assist a nation that has asked for formal entry into NATO prior to being invaded, or otherwise act as the members agree.
There’s been a lot of bullshit over whether NATO broke a promise about recruiting in Eastern Europe, on Russia’s border with Europe; and in complete fairness, they/we have abided by a policy of NOT SEEKING old-Soviet states…but they never promised they’d reject a nation/applicant in order to keep Pootie happy.Russia is mad becauseUkraine is ON that border and Unkraine WANTS TO JOIN NATO.
In response to all this, both Sweden and Finland - traditionally neutral nations - have petitioned for entry into NATO. Finland has a LONG border with Russia…how’s that working out for ya, Pootie Poo?
BTW, this means that Pooti has the goal of making Europe knuckle under to the threat, this means we have a power-hungry mass-murderer-at-heart positioning himself to hold the world hostage to his will/whim/whatever. Not what I want to see…and with Pooti XIV doing the “après-moi, le DELUGE” dance, I can’t think anything positive about his state of mind or his intentions.
Maybe this began as a power play, specifically to pressure NATO, and to peel off more of Ukraine - either to get away with it or pull back; maybe he views Ukraine as an insolent colony grown too big for its britches, like Britain in the Americas - which puts Ukraine in the position of our founding heroes, fighting for their lives & their lands and families, just like our revered ancestors did against a real, no-shit INVADER with no particular history of being decent about things like invasion and occupation.
Too many are fascinated by bad guys, tyrants, serial killers, bullies, clever assholes, right down to commodity-grade smart-ass troublemakers. I think they admire people who just don’t give a shit about people, and that makes ‘celebrity badasses’ like Chump, Pootie, Hitler, Erdogan, and other high-profile serial killers glow *extra bright* in their diseased minds.
Any so-called, self-congratulatory ‘patriot’ whose heart doesn’t fucking BLOOM in sympathy and support for Ukraine, Ukrainians, and the current state of the invasion and resistance, is no fucking “patriot” AT ALL. Being a citizen doesn’t make one a patriot.
Anyway, hi
