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Originally Posted by PilotMan
You don't always get to choose when you fight and when you don't. Your assessment is exceptionally unrealistic when you're dealing with a generational and philosophical enemy to the country. It demonstrates incredible naivete.
You can sit in corner all day long while a bully stomps around, and hope that he doesn't bother you. But once he's taken the field, what is left for you but to either fight against all odds or submit? In our case, we recognize the opportunity early on and we deny him any quarter, and control the playing field. It protects national interest, and it protects the philosophical stance we hold as a country that the rest of the world watches.
Power is more than military, it's control of the sphere of influence. Watching a fledgling, potential ally get overwhelmed by this enemy will not inspire the world to our cause. That is more power than what can be exerted on the battlefield. That is why a proxy war is happening and should happen.
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None of us are fighting. None us are confronting a bully. "We" aren't part of this war. It's us sending money so others can fight for our cause. Even if no one here can explain what that cause is.
Ukraine was never winning this war no matter what CNN (brought to you by Gunthrop Norman) was telling you. Russia is far too big, technologically advanced, and has too many soldiers they can throw into battle. All our money does is delay the inevitable.
If you and others truly think it's necessary to defend Ukraine for our safety, I get that. But we should be declaring war on Russia if that's your belief. None of this half measure shit where you send billions to a rag tag military and watch them get squashed. But that would put skin in the game and that's what you and others want to avoid.