Excellent feed back. You know your stuff, that's for sure and I like the fact that you give both sides. I think we should let Russia deal with Kiev. Would you want your dd or ds over there dealing with that hot mess? We have enough problems with our own country. It's 100% blame it on Ukraine and I feel super sick today. Depressed sort of because of all the pals I lost the last 3 years. Today has been tough on me emotionally. I got in a big debate ((go figure)) with old pal again and it went South. He won;t talk Jab anymore and now all he wants to talk about is this bully Putin and how he and t stole the election form HRC in 2016. Then I heard another story of somebody who got both legs chopped off because of clots. Then.......you know what Grace T? I'm seriously done with all this. My time has come to finally leave once and for all. The talk today with a very smart man has me convinced that he really wants communism and I'm not joking. He is a wealthy rich snob and wants everyone to get jabbed and be a part of Metaverse. Today is 100% my last day at the forum. No one has my back on here at all. My life coach told me to get out of here and it low energy and she is right. Goodbye once and for all. I swear I warned everyone on here about what this is all about and YOU will ALL see soon. I love you all and goodbye my brothers and sisters. It pains me to leave once and for good.....lol! Bahhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaa GOAT FC Rules!!!!I'll give you the pros and cons:
If we don't protect the Ukraine the argument will go that Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania will have issues too because they have Russian minorities as well. They are NATO members. If we don't stand up now, Putin will see we are unserious and invade then, at a time when nuclear protection is trigger due to the NATO charter. (Interestingly, there's a mockumentary where a British news event chronicles a ficticious Russian invasion of Estonia which ends in a global nuclear exchange....very realistic...scary stuff....I'm much more worried about this possibility than I am about climate change or even the cylons....I posted it a few months back but you can youtube google it). Putin's stated policy is that he wants to rebuild the Russian Empire and thinks it was a mistake for the soviet Union to break up (which also puts Finland and Sweden who are not NATO members in the cross hairs). The Ukrainians are a separate and distinct people with a developing culture and separate nonorthodox religion.
The cons were mostly clearly outlined by Tulsi is a recent address. The Ukraine is not a democracy....it is a kleptocracy which is corrupt and part of the reason we may be doing this is because of the corruption between Ukraine and certain US officials. The Russians have a legitimate concern about self determination. The US is not the world's police men. We gave the Russians certain assurances under the table when Germany reunited and the Soviets left eastern Europe and now NATO is being pushed deep into the Russian hinterland (near the lands where Germany pushed the Russians at Stalingrad) and how would we feel if Mexico joined the Chinese Axis and China stationed a bunch of troops on the Mexican border.