We also saw them get beaten up and occupied by Western powers and Japan for the better part of a century or more.
The truth is, their Navy is only a fraction of ours, and it won’t take long for our air power to knock out their shipbuilding capacity.
At that point, once we have them blockaded…and interdict their oil shipments in the straits of hormuz and straits of malacca…their war powers will wilt.
Hell, they attempted to invade Vietnam back in the 1970s.
Didn’t go so well for them.
It ain’t a “mud strip.”
It’s another nation’s sovereign territory, and giving it to them is like giving Hitler Czechoslovakia and France.
You don’t appease a belligerent aggressor.
The time for being a mental vagina has passed.
They didn’t to too bad against the American mechanized Army in the Korean conflict ( just artillery and man power that was fanatical) now their a peer compeititor in many respects to our technology, we may hold slight edge. That’s a big maybe.
It is a mud strip now.
We authored this by not putting up any defense for the Crimea. We don’t have a treaty with Ukraine and we never told Russia that this was a hard line.
Time for some pizz lines and transparency. That has been lacking.
End this war and use the money for Americans.
They didn’t do that well either.
In Korea, the USA suffered about 33K KIAs.
China…over 200,000 according to most estimates.
Sounds like we got the better part of that fight.
Again…being a mental vagina in the past isn’t an excuse for being a mental vagina today.
Please don’t continue the mental vagina-ism.
Don’t know about others I am not willing to see my son or daughter die on some dusty deserted bloody battlefield for no purpose other than nationalist ego reasons. Because we are the “BIG DOG” on earth at least that what some think. Pure idiocy imo
It is time for a new way of thinking. Transparency and real resolve and not sending other people off to die with weapons the American taxpayer is paying for.
That is just taxpayers funding weapons manufacturers while we ACT like heroes.
I guess in your world it’d be OK to allow despots like Putin and Xi impose their will anywhere they see fit.
I’m glad we didn’t take that attitude in the past with people like Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo.
I’m cool with giving Ukraine what it needs to resist aggression from an outside invader.
Same for Israel.
Good use of my tax dollars from my perspective.
The fight was forced upon us in WWII as I recall Japan attacked us, then Hitler declared war on us first. Comes to National survival I be the first to pick up a weapon and fight
You’d be incredibly naive to think that we wouldn’t have eventually entered the war in Europe.
Happened in WWI…would have happened again in WWII eventually.
That’s why we had implemented the first ever peacetime draft in 1940.
It was in anticipation of eventually entering the war.
The only reason this has progressed is we were unwilling to stop them in the Crimea. We then didn’t tell them what our line was.
When you are the big dog you have to tell everyone where your pizz line is. We didn’t.
Not disputing that fact FDR saw it coming and was preparing a reluctant nation who wanted no part of what they considered a European conflict and Asia conflict. American at there very core are isolationist just leave us alone and don’t F with us. We have no problems, but a lot of our leaders like you want to meddle all over the world
You are exaggerating the extent of any isolationism on our part.
Didn’t stop us from entering WWI…likewise wouldn’t have stopped us from entering WWII.
Hell…we really weren’t even isolationist before Pearl Harbor.
We had already started selling warstuffs to Great Britain under the Lend-Lease Act.
By early 1941, we were neutral IN NAME ONLY.
So in the same way we give Ukraine warstuffs to resist aggression by a foreign despot…we gave the UK what it needed as well prior to Pearl Harbor.
Our actions in Ukraine are well-precedented in that regard.
Quote: In his December 29, 1940 Fireside Chat radio broadcast, President Roosevelt proclaimed the United States would be the “Arsenal of Democracy” and proposed selling munitions to Britain and Canada.[
Today, we will be the arsenal of democracy in Ukraine and Israel.
Your talking our pols like (FDR who were interventionist, they wanted to get into the action) I am talking the American public two distinct groups. Majority of the public did not want to get involved in what they considered conflicts that had nothing to do with America’s safety. Now we’re they right in thinking so? Is another question. FDR had to figure out a way to get American troops involved, Tojo and Hitler made that easy for him with the decisions they made
I’m not sure how non-interventionist the American public is.
I’m a part of the American public, and I sure as Hell never have been.
If he whose name cannot be spoken is such a non-interventionist in the case of Israel or Ukraine…then shame on him.
Intervention needn’t be in the form of putting boots on the ground.
It can also take the form of giving whatever warstuffs are necessary in order to help both nations resist aggression.
Though…come to think of it…didn’t a certain POTUS elect also intervene militarily against ISIS…and intervene militarily by launching an airstrike to assassinate Soleimani…and intervene militarily by increasing drone strikes in Africa?
Hint: yes.
Don’t assume the USA is THAT isolationist. US history doesn’t exactly show us to be a peace loving or non-interventionist nation.
In our 200+ year history.
We’ve been involved in about 114 different military conflicts.
So to anyone that says the USA has a history of “isolationism,” I would say…GO BACK AND RE-READ YOUR HISTORY!!!
Would have eventually happened AT LEAST in Europe even if those guys hadn’t made the decision easy.
PRINT IT!!!
I guess we define big dog differently.
Sending material ( lend lease etc.) and sending the nations sons and daughters to die in conflict are 2 different realities. Nation found that out real quick when the first televised war (Viet Nam) caught the brutality and inhumanesss of war. People didn’t realize this ain’t how Hollywood portrays war. All nice and neat. People saying a last few words of bravery before dying.
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