Those are really good points. I'm as guilty as anyone of believing in American exceptionalism at times but I think you nailed it here. Russia and China have successfully waged an infiltration of American government, over the course of decades, without needing to fire a single shot. Guess Nikita Krushchev was right.
The moment you think of yourself as a "chosen one", or shall we say "a shining city on a hill", you've authored a beefy chapter in the explainer of your downfall.
Easier to call a Democrat a traitor than realize that your kid is hungry because of the person you put in charge. Like you said, Russia and China figured that out a long time ago.
After 13+ years of living in another country (be it Canada or England) the one thing I have learned is that the world generally thinks of Americans as morons often high on their own supply. That is when they think of America at all, which in general mainly happens when stupid shits like Trump do things. Outside of sports and entertainment, the day to day foreigner thinks of America as little as possible besides the occasional facepalm or shaking their head at another school shooting.
Exactly. I recall when I lived in Europe back in the mid1980’s a British bloke was shaking his head at me saying: “Look what your lot has gone and done now, Yank!” (He was speaking about Ronnie Raygun)
Great armchair quarterbacking there. Any idiot could look back and say what we should have done although your play calling was JV level. The question was what do you think trump should do NOW - as in going forward? Any thoughts at all besides since you feel he is screwing up?
He should continue to neuter the Russian army by continuing to support Ukraine, although I'd like to see him be a bit more aggressive in allowing Ukraine to take the fight to Russia. That did get better in the last part of Biden's term and I understand his initial caution, but overall Biden wasn't aggressive enough. We've spent about $90 billion over the past three years, or a little over 10% of one year's worth of our defense budget, on Ukraine. It's the best defense money we've spent in my lifetime in terms of weakening our enemies and getting real time information on modern battlefield techniques, what works and what doesn't, and we haven't had to spend one American life. The money we've spent on sending them armaments has in large part come from weapons we'd have to decommission and re-supply anyway and is helping to keep our defense industry in good shape. It has additional knock off effects such as making China re-think their plan to attack Taiwan. As long as Ukraine wants to fight we should support that.
You think I'm actually interested in having a discussion with you after that complete and utter batshit insanity you screeched out at midnight last night? You aren't going to get me to have a nuanced policy discussion with you by desperately following me around like a dog in heat hurling juvenile insults at me. You want me to answer questions on policy positions? You figure out a better way to ask it or don't waste my time. I'm happy to have discussions, debates, and civil disagreements with people whom I respect. I have less than zero respect for you. If anything, I have immense pity for you. I feel sorry for you.
Seriously?
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You sound really paranoid and cringy with your "following me" schtick. I guess that's a deflection tactic. My interactions with you are due to your blatant hypocrisy that seemingly has skyrocketed in frequency, and the over the top hyperbole (I mean its approaching CF levels). Are you politicking for some hidden board award that goes to the most hysterical and hyperbolic poster? You engage me in a civil and serious manner and I will always reciprocate. There are those on here who are always civil and serious and I always treat them in like kind. You were no different until after the election and thats when you became more Shannon and less NYC. As for your respect, meh, I'm a conservative engaging on a liberal board. Respect for any conservative is fleeting around here but conservatives on here know that so its all good.
I don't necessarily disagree with you and you make a good point about the price of battlefield information we have obtained. I don't support his public position on the beginning point of a brokered deal and his treating ukraine as irrelevant to the discussions. However, I do have some major heartburn about not forcing Europe to shoulder more of the financial burden. I have a great deal of criticism of biden in the months leading up to the invasion, but not so much in the support other than as you said him not being more aggressive. I don't think biden was mentally capable of doing much beyond providing weapons. I do think Putin, if pushed to where he was going to be defeated or publicly humiliated, would have used battlefield nukes so I'm aware that being to aggressive could have led to a bad outcome and then what is the response? I would like to see trump continue or even increase the support for ukraine while having a sense of urgency to broker a deal. At what point does the support stop? Another year? Two? Five? There has to be an ending to it.
Always the asshole.
