Russia Just Invaded Ukraine

[Tgo01]

I said basically this. I think we should be done policing the world. I'm tired of meaningless wars where we send the poor to fight for some obscure geopolitical reason, or for oil.

So you're for Putin!!1111!

[waywardgs]

Maybe you just don't give a shit about american body bags.

I do.

[Gelston]

Oh, I think the region should go to Russia as well. I think they should pay for it though. Honestly, it never should have been given to the Ukraine in the first place, and if the Soviet Union had never fallen, it wouldn't have mattered.

[waywardgs]

So you're for Putin!!1111!

If this is how you feel like posing my statement, then by all means, you go ahead.

[cwolff]

I said basically this. I think we should be done policing the world. I'm tired of meaningless wars where we send the poor to fight for some obscure geopolitical reason, or for oil.

I agree with you. Hell I think we all do. The problem I see is that we don't have a choice anymore. We've put ourselves out there as the World's police. If we step back the people who fill that vacuum aren't going to thank us. This is give an inch lose a mile. IMO, once you fight to be the big dog, you better stay there. If we go isolationist for a while then decide to flex our muscles later it'll be a full on war.

[Latrinsorm]

I said basically this. I think we should be done policing the world. I'm tired of meaningless wars where we send the poor to fight for some obscure geopolitical reason, or for oil.

Instead of a million thousandaires, we should send a thousand millionaires...

[Tgo01]

Why do people think we haven't benefited from being the "world's police"?

How different would the world be today if we just told Japan they better play nice from now on and we'll leave them alone as long as they leave us alone after they bombed Pearl Harbor and we continued on our merry way with our isolationist policy?

Latrin, run some numbers. How different would the world be today? Would the US be in a better position or a worse position? Would everyday American lives be better or worse?

[Gelston]

I don't think the thing with the Japanese was being the world police. That was us being attacked by a nation using conventional forces.

[waywardgs]

Instead of a million thousandaires, we should send a thousand millionaires...

If you can stuff bill gates into one of those tin cans, I'm so fucking down with that.

[cwolff]

I don't think the thing with the Japanese was being the world police. That was us being attacked by a nation using conventional forces.

Ya that fight was brewing and we just needed Pearl Harbor to get it started.