Confused!! Moral clarity! USA USA We are no. 1. No. 1 in what. ??? I remember the "Speak Softly, but carry a big stick". "Peace through strength!. If you think about it America has not WON any war that mattered since WW 11. We have lost thousands of American lives and spent trillions of dollars on the following >> Korean, what was the ou…
Confused!! Moral clarity! USA USA We are no. 1. No. 1 in what. ??? I remember the "Speak Softly, but carry a big stick". "Peace through strength!. If you think about it America has not WON any war that mattered since WW 11. We have lost thousands of American lives and spent trillions of dollars on the following >> Korean, what was the outcome. Certainly not victory compared to WW11. Viet Nam, shameful outcome, Iraq, poor execution and decisions, Afghanistan, even worse outcome and humiliating. What have we won, what and who have we in essence allowed to grow and prosper after "causing" the death of all our young men and trillions of taxpayer dollars. Let move on to today. We as a civilized world could have said to Putin, sorry but it is 2024 you are not allowed to just decide for any reason to annex another country. We have first the power to destroy you economically . Your country is now a pariah and no planes can land in other country, nobody will buy any thing your passports are invalid around the world. The war would stop. Moral clarity ?? Of course the "world" did not do that. How about we know where the leaders of Hamas live, we know who they are, we know who exactly is supplying the personnel and weapons to kill innocent civilians. Could the allies and the world make it perfectly clear that the price they are going to pay is immense and not worth their country's present ideology and continued economic viability. Peace though strength , Moral Clarity.? No we lack the vision and will because we do not see the value in being the winner, and we fail to dictate a clear moral right and wrong and are willing to suffer the consequences of being the winner.
No, we, and certainly not most of the Europeans, don't play to win. Peace through strength works, if you're willing to use the strength. As of now, we really are not. Example. If Donald Trump, as President, told Hamas/Iran if they harmed one hair of an American citizen we'd remove them from the face of the earth, do you think there would be any American hostages? Wouldn't have to go that far. Just blow up their oil business. Before they get a nuclear bomb. That changes the world. We'd better get going on eliminating that threat. This "bring them into the International community" notion of the generally stupid Diplomatic Corps is a childish fantasy.
Confused!! Moral clarity! USA USA We are no. 1. No. 1 in what. ??? I remember the "Speak Softly, but carry a big stick". "Peace through strength!. If you think about it America has not WON any war that mattered since WW 11. We have lost thousands of American lives and spent trillions of dollars on the following >> Korean, what was the outcome. Certainly not victory compared to WW11. Viet Nam, shameful outcome, Iraq, poor execution and decisions, Afghanistan, even worse outcome and humiliating. What have we won, what and who have we in essence allowed to grow and prosper after "causing" the death of all our young men and trillions of taxpayer dollars. Let move on to today. We as a civilized world could have said to Putin, sorry but it is 2024 you are not allowed to just decide for any reason to annex another country. We have first the power to destroy you economically . Your country is now a pariah and no planes can land in other country, nobody will buy any thing your passports are invalid around the world. The war would stop. Moral clarity ?? Of course the "world" did not do that. How about we know where the leaders of Hamas live, we know who they are, we know who exactly is supplying the personnel and weapons to kill innocent civilians. Could the allies and the world make it perfectly clear that the price they are going to pay is immense and not worth their country's present ideology and continued economic viability. Peace though strength , Moral Clarity.? No we lack the vision and will because we do not see the value in being the winner, and we fail to dictate a clear moral right and wrong and are willing to suffer the consequences of being the winner.
No, we, and certainly not most of the Europeans, don't play to win. Peace through strength works, if you're willing to use the strength. As of now, we really are not. Example. If Donald Trump, as President, told Hamas/Iran if they harmed one hair of an American citizen we'd remove them from the face of the earth, do you think there would be any American hostages? Wouldn't have to go that far. Just blow up their oil business. Before they get a nuclear bomb. That changes the world. We'd better get going on eliminating that threat. This "bring them into the International community" notion of the generally stupid Diplomatic Corps is a childish fantasy.