Lesh
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You've got the Putin talking points down well.What? Vladimir, son of Vladimir? I was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. That doesn't mean I can't relate to another culture, does it? I DID travel to Russia once. It was in 2007. I stayed a week with an online friend in her home village of Yaroslavl. It's an ancient village about 160 northeast of Moscow.
The weirdest thing I saw that week was a couple of Mormons. No shit. I still laugh when I think of it.
Uh... no, he's doing a bit more than that. He's sending a message that he'll send in Americans to other eastern European nations like Poland and Czech republic. He and whoever the hell it is running his senile old ass are making noises that could lead to an escalation. Ukraine is not our problem. Ukraine has no business joining NATO with our blessing or assistance.
What steps would YOU take if the decision was yours? More importantly, if you had to respond to a similar situation but this time it was Russian or Chinese troops building up an invasion-size force on our border with Mexico or Canada, what would YOU do?
Of course you forget that we encouraged Ukraine to get rid of their nukes with the promise that we would protect them from the Russian bear...so yea...it kind of is our problem.
What would I do?
Arm the Ukrainians so that Putin would pay a price and beef up our presence in NATO countries to show we take our Article 5 obligation seriously
In other words...pretty much what Biden is doing