08-19-2023, 03:40 AM
(08-18-2023, 12:32 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I tend to agree, here. I am not a big fan of our role as the global police force and have long advocated to reducing our footprint around the globe. The events in Ukraine have caused me to reevaluate my positions, and especially the response from people that are parroting propaganda generated from Kremlin-friendly sources.
As we should have learned in the '30s, the international system (commerce and the law which organizes and protects it) abhors power vacuums.