To your second, other than on a humanitarian level in the sense that I prefer peace to bloodshed, this Ukraine/Russia matter doesn’t even register on my important issue scale. The Biden admin and its allies failed at finding a diplomatic solution (assuming they actually wanted one) and then committed American treasure and prestige to a war effort unsupported by actual Americans. Don’t look at me for solutions on how to put Humpty back together.

On your third, I don’t think anything “happens” with respect to America, which is the country I care about, if Russia “wins”, nor is it even clear what you mean by Russia “winning”. I suppose the latter is a problem inherent in half-baked foreign policy interventions with no clear goals or plan to achieve them, but, again, I didn’t create that problem.

As a side note, I find remarkable similarities between the US Slavi Ukraini faction’s rhetoric and George Bush’s old “You’re either with us or against us” style of “debate” leading up to the Afghanistan/Iraq excursions. That’s not a good look.

[Post edited by Los Angeles Hoo at 01/28/2024 10:20AM]