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Zelensky’s Inexplicable and Inexcusable Partisanship

Ukraine isolationism is baffling to me.

1. It enables aggressive autocrats - the cost of appeasing Hitler for years before Britain and the US got involved is incalculable. It is far better to fight the threat when it emerges than to wait until it metastasizes.

2. America’s involvement in foreign affairs has undoubtedly led to America’s position as the number one economy on Earth. Our generosity in rebuilding Western Europe, in embracing Germany and Japan as Allies post ww2 set the stage for decades of market growth. Ukraine is a nation of entrepreneurship, of innovation, of math, of science. A country with agricultural roots as deep as Iowa’s. Not to mention a nation of very hot women. Of course we should want to be a good partner to a country like that.

3. America has been the beneficiary of foreign support countless times. Hell, we do not even have a country without France’s support. And let’s not forget how our allies rallied post 9/11. I believe we have an obligation to help those with who we share a set of values. A democratic Ukraine is an ideal that the Ukrainian people strive for, and half our country wants to turn our back on that?

4. Many of the same isolationists on Ukraine are all for support of Israel. Have some consistency. Both nations deserve peace. Both nations have the right to fight aggression whether that be terrorism or state sponsored warfare.
The party that brought America its 2 longest and most pointless wars (Endless wars!!!!) is super concerned about spending money supplying weapons (built in America), with no American troops on ground, to kneecap an actual geopolitical foe.
 
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