Redbrickbear said:
Oldbear83 said:
300 years ago there was no USA.
History has its place, but that place does not include denying the future.
Ukraine earned its freedom, it's evil to pretend we should let them be eaten now just because Putin wants it.
No one said Ukraine does not deserve to be independent.
But Ukraine (Little Russia) and Belarus (white Russia) belong in the Russian sphere of influence.
Just as Mexico and the Caribbean area belong in ours.
The West has long pushed Russia with the recruitment of buffer countries into NATO. You can only poke the bear so much.
When the USSR fell and got out of Cuba the US got exactly what you are describing.
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6) Frederic Bastiat