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Ken Lefkowitz's avatar

Tell us about the great grocery stores in Moscow, please. Food for thought: do you like your iPhone and other creature comforts? You wouldn't have them without America's world leadership and nuclear umbrella.

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Tony L. Branham Jr.'s avatar

We wouldn't have our IPhones or most of our consumer goods without China either.

Aren't most of Foxconn's manufacturing facilities located in China?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn

Europe gets most of their natural gas from Russia, without it they would have faced some pretty hard winters.

Wars happen.

America had the French-Indian War, The Revolutionary War, The War of 1812, The Canadian American war, The Indian (Wars against Native Americans) Wars, The Mexican American War and so on...

Heck, we even invaded Canada on three separate occasions. Once in 1775 during the American Revolution, rebel forces invaded Canada, occupying Montreal and attacking the town of Quebec.; once between 1812-1815 during the War of 1812 saw the United States launch a series of land and sea invasions of British North America (now Canada); and once in 1837, saw American rebels from the HuntersтАЩ Lodges invade Canada, with the Battle of the Windmill being a notable event.

Are we giving California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas back to Mexico?

Are we giving back the land snatched from the Native Americans?

Have we apologized and made recompense to Canada?

To be honest we are not likely to be giving any land back to anyone or apologizing to Canada.

To try and take the moral high-ground with Russia reeks of historical hypocrisy.

Yes war is bad and in general unwarranted, but all countries throughout history have fallen into the trap of war.

Like Battlestar Galactica said, тАЬAll this has happened before, and all of it will happen againтАЭ.

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