Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, Lynn McGuire wrote:

in Korea, several of my wife's cousins fought in Vietnam.  My son fought in
Iraq.  I vote that we let Europe fight it out this time on their own.  There
will be more wars coming after this one.

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It might sound strange, but I actually understand this point of view 100%, and
that is why I would not, and cannot criticize the US if it decides to drop
ukraine. I would of course be sad, and I do not think it would make for a safer
world, in fact, I think it will make for a much worse conflict further down the
line that the US will be pulled into, but... I do understand that the US cannot
play world police forever, and I think it is 100% true that the EU should start
to take responsibility itself, instead of riding on the US.

I completely understand that point of view, and I think a number of the
wars that we have been in, such as Vietnam or the second Gulf War, were
gone into for the wrong reasons and started by America.  Even a person
who supports war in general should not be able to support wars like that.

But... I also think this particular war can head off future wars.  I don't
like it.  I don't think it should ever have started but I also think that
diplomats on both sides did as much as they possibly could to prevent it.
I also think that the US has done a very good job of walking the line to
help finance the Ukranian defense without sending US troops.  But I agree
that there have been too many wars amounting in the end to too much nothing.

There are people who say there will be no long-term effect of the Ukranian
invasion, that Putin will soon die and Russia will fall apart for a while
and have to be sewn back up by someone new, and that in that process
Ukraine has a better chance of escapsing than it does today.  Maybe that is
correct, and waiting would have been a better thing to do.  But the war
got started and now they're stuck in it, and Putin just becomes more angry
and resentful every day, listening less to his generals every day.
--scott
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