“You don’t think we should do anything about Ukraine?”
Me: “Nope. NATO shouldn’t be encroaching on Russia, they’re violating non-expansion agreements. And every clip I see of the war, the Ukrainian soldiers are sporting Nazi symbols on their uniforms.”
“But that Putin is just another Trump!”
Me: “Yep. And the war is a bunch of awful people fighting other awful people, throwing more guns at it isn’t going to stop it. We could be spending that support money on taking care of people here at home. We should massively defund the military and pull back our expeditionary units and close our bases around the world.”
“Then what will stop China from invading?!”.
Me: “Unlike the US government, China isn’t surrounding every adversarial county with bases; that should clue you in about their values and priorities”.
“You don’t think we should do anything about Ukraine?”
Me: “Nope. NATO shouldn’t be encroaching on Russia, they’re violating non-expansion agreements. And every clip I see of the war, the Ukrainian soldiers are sporting Nazi symbols on their uniforms.”
“But that Putin is just another Trump!”
Me: “Yep. And the war is a bunch of awful people fighting other awful people, throwing more guns at it isn’t going to stop it. We could be spending that support money on taking care of people here at home. We should massively defund the military and pull back our expeditionary units and close our bases around the world.”
“Then what will stop China from invading?!”.
Me: “Unlike the US government, China isn’t surrounding every adversarial county with bases; that should clue you in about their values and priorities”.