Running against Putin in an election is a great way to get poisoned. Putin is a dictator as much as Kim Jong Un is (North Korea also has elections after all).
The US interest is in Russia finding it very, very difficult to conquer territory to their west. If conquest is easy for Putin, he's just going to keep doing it.
Running against Putin in an election is a great way to get poisoned. Putin is a dictator as much as Kim Jong Un is (North Korea also has elections after all).
The US interest is in Russia finding it very, very difficult to conquer territory to their west. If conquest is easy for Putin, he's just going to keep doing it.
The difference is no boots on the ground in Ukraine. If anything this is more like arming the Taliban when the USSR invaded Afghanistan, except hopefully Zelenskyy isn't the next Osama Bin Laden.
Our involvement in Vietnam started with no boots on the ground. Most conflicts start with no boots on the ground and then escalate. If Biden and/or NATO decides to move troops into Ukraine, would your position change? There is zero talk of trying to deescalate this conflict. The only option presented by our media is supplying more weapons and more money to Ukraine.
Our involvement in Afghanistan also started with no boots on the ground. Granted, 9/11 likely changed the plan for Afghanistan but most did not see us being there for 20+ years at a cost of trillions of dollars.
Navalny alternates between exile and being thrown in prison; he's treated by the Kremlin the way the CCP treats the Dalai Lama.
Putin started with Chechnya, then Georgia, then Crimea, and now hes come for the rest of Ukraine. The signs have been there all along.
The US cares because 1) Sooner or later Russian expansion will run into American allied states (e.g. Finland), and because 2) EU countries are much better for the US economy than Russian-style countries (with no rules against IP theft and massive state-sponsored hacking farms, for example). So the US has a vested interest in not seeing Putin roll tanks through half of Europe in his dream of rebuilding the Iron Curtain.
Better to nip conquest in the bud than let it snowball, as we saw with Germany in the 1930s.
Running against Putin in an election is a great way to get poisoned. Putin is a dictator as much as Kim Jong Un is (North Korea also has elections after all).
The US interest is in Russia finding it very, very difficult to conquer territory to their west. If conquest is easy for Putin, he's just going to keep doing it.
This sounds like the same argument used to fight a war in Vietnam. "Stopping the spread of communism" worked out well.
The difference is no boots on the ground in Ukraine. If anything this is more like arming the Taliban when the USSR invaded Afghanistan, except hopefully Zelenskyy isn't the next Osama Bin Laden.
Our involvement in Vietnam started with no boots on the ground. Most conflicts start with no boots on the ground and then escalate. If Biden and/or NATO decides to move troops into Ukraine, would your position change? There is zero talk of trying to deescalate this conflict. The only option presented by our media is supplying more weapons and more money to Ukraine.
Our involvement in Afghanistan also started with no boots on the ground. Granted, 9/11 likely changed the plan for Afghanistan but most did not see us being there for 20+ years at a cost of trillions of dollars.
Poppycock. The main opposition is the Communist Party. They're all still alive and kicking and standing in elections. Even Navalny, was still alive the last time I checked. Whom I presume you are referring to, he's not popular in Russia, so he doesn't win any of his elections. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109765/attitude-toward-activity-of-alexei-navalny-russia/
Putin has been in power for 20 odd years give or take. If he was so interested in conquest, don't you think we would have seen signs of it before now?
Again why does the US care about what Putin does in Europe?
Navalny alternates between exile and being thrown in prison; he's treated by the Kremlin the way the CCP treats the Dalai Lama.
Putin started with Chechnya, then Georgia, then Crimea, and now hes come for the rest of Ukraine. The signs have been there all along.
The US cares because 1) Sooner or later Russian expansion will run into American allied states (e.g. Finland), and because 2) EU countries are much better for the US economy than Russian-style countries (with no rules against IP theft and massive state-sponsored hacking farms, for example). So the US has a vested interest in not seeing Putin roll tanks through half of Europe in his dream of rebuilding the Iron Curtain.
Better to nip conquest in the bud than let it snowball, as we saw with Germany in the 1930s.