This is so stupid. The war in Ukraine didn't have to happen at all.
Agreed. Russia could have stayed on their side of established international border. If they were concerned about "ethnic Russians" being oppressed and eradicated, they could have brought some evidence to the international community and it'd be Ukraine under sanctions, not them. Ukraine is not China, so odds are pretty good someone in the world community would have taken it seriously. Y'know, if it was that bad.
The Biden administration wanted it.
Hey look, random words.
There's no way this administration wanted this war. Sure, it makes Trump's allies look like suicidal zealots to anyone who doesn't get a hard-on when they hear "remove term limits". So that's good PR with their own base. But it obligates the US to spend, spend, spend in an economy suffering global record inflation because compassion, which immediately triggers the political right into a frenzy only rivaled by the words "she, hers" because the Never, Ever Be Caught Being Nice To Anyone party can't stand compassionate spending. Graft? Sure. Charity? No way.
Trump was already president, he didn't say anything about leaving NATO. Why would he?
He didn't? You mean other than this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...
As for why? Because... well, see previous comments about his party and charity. It doesn't matter that having friendly countries between you and your enemies is in your best interest. It doesn't matter that helping the oppressed is moral. It only matters that some countries (full disclosure: my own included) aren't contributing as much as they agreed to.
All he pushed for was our NATO allies to pay more for their own defense instead of relying on the US to pay for it all.
All he pushed for is you are wrong. That's all. But that's how it goes with his followers and apologists. Lies, misinformation, and ignoring the truth whenever it's inconvenient. As in... pretty much always.
If asking them to pay their bills is "alienating" that's fine.
As far as polarizing, well that's because liberals like you are insane
Uh-huh. Look, very close to every single day Trump was in office he said or did something that had the international community throwing a Picard WTF in the air. The guy was unhinged, and still is. It doesn't matter - for instance - that there's effectively zero evidence of Democrat meddling with the election results and that there's actual evidence of Republicans tampering with voting machines, but... he still doesn't understand math well enough to get that he lost. Since the Biden administration came on board, other than some occasional something, something his kid's laptop something, something, there's almost no scandal. Why? Because not a sociopath. That's why.
Sorry for the rant, but man, this post rubbed me the wrong way and I couldn't let it stand as-was.