gtyellowjacket
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We're protecting our markets, not our territory. You're correct that no on is going to invade the US.
Russia is inherently aggressive and while it might be Ukraine today, they'll keep going. Or would have if we didn't prop up Ukraine's defensive capabilities. Eventually that would have come to a head. We kicked that problem down the road by decades for a fraction of our overall military budget, and not even a blip compared to our GDP.
We also need Taiwan to remain independent, at least until chip manufacturing can be domesticated or otherwise protected from rival countries. Imagine what would happen if we lost our ready supply to chips. The stock market would collapse.
I'll add that your statement about Russia will keep going doesn't seem grounded in facts. They didn't keep going in Georgia. They stopped after taking two provinces and it wasn't because Georgia's army stopped them.
And they can't keep going in Ukraine and it was because Ukraine stopped them. That's the formula for Russia and China: Spend a fraction of your yearly defense budget every 20 years and your adversaries will destroy themselves without spending our blood and less of our treasure.