the murdering thug running South Africa is hardly a voice of reason
may be Sam.... but how would we feel if Russia kept on creating communists regimes totally surrounding our county?
and they had missiles and Armys with US in their cross hairs... even if they call it defense?
Maybe surrounding Russia is why they have always been so belligerent since WW2... with a chip on their shoulder...
The USSR is long gone Russia has the GNP of Brazil. Maybe. They are not the threat. China might be more inclined to mess about
Russia has proven that they are the primary threat to peace in Europe, as they are the only country to initiate armed conflict in Europe since 1945. Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea, and Ukraine have all experienced Russian aggression.
Using those criteria America has been a hundred times worse than Russia. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq twice, Syria, Afghanistan, Panama. None of these countries represented a threat, were of zero use strategically and were not even close to our borders.
Korea was a UN operation.
Desert Storm was in reaction to the Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait and also, at least in part, to protect the continued flow of Saudi oil from an embolden Saddam Hussein. It was a coalition of nations, not just the U.S.
I agree that none of the rest of those other wars was a clear and present danger to the U.S., at least they weren't when viewed after the fact with 20/20 hindsight. They may have seemed justified using the information and perspective present at that time. I have long felt, and posted against it on this site, that the second war against Iraq that deposed SH was a mistake because it removed a fairly strong opponent to counter Iran. I feel that the second war against Iraq was done for the benefit of Israel and because GHB and the people pulling his strings wanted to do a regime change and practice nation building. Don't forget that Colin Powell opposed the second war against Iraq and Powell was smarter than the average bear. If not for his role in covering up the Mei Lai Massacre, CP could have been our first AA POTUS instead of BHO.
Don't forget Granada.
EDIT: I'm just an old guy, born when DDE was POTUS, who isn't particularly interested in politics or imposing my beliefs on others. I am not an evangelist or zealot for any particular political cause or perspective, as I believe that all people have the GOD given right to believe in what they want to believe in and to live their lives accordingly. For example, we gave the people of Afghanistan the opportunity to determine what sort of government they wanted and after 20 years of fighting to support a democratic government that we installed and preferred, the people overwhelmingly ignored it, wouldn't fight for it, and by doing so showed that, as a group, they preferred the theocratic Taliban. Seemingly a "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink" scenario. I am also not and don't claim to be an expert in politics or foreign affairs.