...this is the hardest part of being a democracy these days...you inherit the shit sandwich the US left for you, even if you didn't do anything to create the problem and you can't afford to simply look the other way when another democracy comes under attack, even if you likely don't have the means to help.
Look at France taking the reigns. Good for you, France. The US is led by a weak ass TACO right now. We can't help in this way... We are fucking weak. Weak ass US.
A soggy taco.
Do you think the United States is weak by chance? I kind of got that feeling from your post but you didn't come right out and say it so I wanted to verify, thanks!
Nah. They voted. They're weak literally by their choice.
US isn't weak but our leadership has taken a massive downswing in the last 5 months. The level of incompetence they've been able to achieve since Jan is amazing.
The usa only have better technology
What about sending soldiers to fight russia
Ukr is not like russia. Ukraine say they just need weapons and arms to defend themselves for giving up nukes, nothing else.
Why eould you refuse military aids? This can save many ukranian civilians
no idea, ask them.
I’m sure they would take the help of soldiers too
I think they do accept help from mercenaries and volunteers.
NK is already on the front lines in Ukraine wtf does he mean
that is what he means.
This is why the current political climate is so extremely dangerous. The world has spent so long developing the Global Nash Equilibrium that nobody believes that anybody is in a position to actually follow through on any of the threats they make. Everybody is fully willing to believe that all their opponents are bluffing, and fully willing to call those bluffs. But all the bluffing was part of the Nash Equilibrium, so actually calling those bluffs is destroying the Equilibrium. The only way we can go back to the balance is if the threats become credible again, and that can only happen if people start actually following through on some of their threats for a while. And that would make for an extremely rough decade.
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