(09-21-2022 02:52 PM)natibeast2.0 Wrote:  In an address to the nation on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization has been decreed, making Russian citizens currently in reserve subject to conscription. The announcement comes after the self-declared Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republics (LPR), and eastern Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia announced plans to hold votes on joining Russia. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called the referendum an "escalation in Putin's war." Keep it here for the latest on-the-ground updates.

Seems to me this is not a war the U.S. should be involved in anyway. Just sayin what I've said since day 1. If I turn against my original opinion and end up disagreeing with it I'll be more than happy to admit.

Honestly, I dont care about it any further than there is simply too much of a chance Putin goes after NATO nations (most likely the Baltic states) after he digests Ukraine---which would draw US servicemen directly into a war. Maybe he means the stuff about NATO---maybe he doesnt. But he's stated before that he believed certain areas should be Russian satellite states and then he used his military to try and get what he wanted (both in Georgia and Ukraine). I mean---its not like that kind of expansionist talk by your neighbor president should be taken lightly. You dont see NATO presidents regularly talking about invading Russia or its puppet states do you? In fact---pretty much everywhere you have a leader mouthing off like Putin you either have a war or at the minimum---a huge arms build up (N-S Korea, China-Taiwan, India-Pakistan, Israel-Arab nations, etc).

That said---if we were not part of NATO, Id be fine with staying out of it---though Id also have zero issues with selling Ukraine weapons to defend itself with. Thats just good old fashioned capitalism.