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Ah, stooping to the Nazi analogy. How fortunate for Eastern Europe that we forced them into a Soviet concentration camp for the next 40 years. If Britain hadn't made a hasty promise to defend Poland, WW2 in Europe would have been a regional conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union. Hitler had no intention of "world domination."It's not difficult to understand but it is difficult to stomach. People like you said the same thing in the 1930's, that what was happening in Europe and Asia were just regional conflicts that posed no security threat to the US and therefore the US should not send military supplies to Britain and Russia and China to fight off the aggressors because it will just prolong the war and cause more casualties, that the US should just allow the Nazis and Japanese to take over most of the world since they were no threat to the US. By your reasoning, the real monsters in WWII were not the Nazis or Japanese but the US soldiers who made the war last longer and therefore caused more casualties.
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When Trump talks fondly about his German heritage, do you think he is also thinking the US was wrong to have stopped the Germans from taking over Europe?
By the same token, Japan's invasions of China and Korea were regional conflicts until its access to raw materials was cut off by the US, Britain and other European countries. Once again, the end result of outside intervention was a Communist dictatorship that dominated a large portion of the world.
Unlike you, I do not consider these outcomes to be necessarily superior to their alternatives. What I do believe is that hasty reactions often lead to undesirable results. Choosing to assist Ukraine in its war with Russia may be one of them.