Comment by estearum
1 day ago
"Current Dems just want our country to honor its commitments" is quite a criticism!
Maybe I'm just some war hungry lunatic, but I actually think that when the US tells a country it will defend its sovereignty in exchange for it not having nuclear weapons, it's very important that we honor those commitments.
That's probably because I prefer deterrence, and intermittent war required to assert deterrence, more than I like the idea of every nation in a race to build nuclear weapons and then every neighbor doing scrambling to prevent nuclearization. Basically a warmonger then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You also probably believe in strong regulation of the internet (including possibly ID verification), open borders, and other positions I don’t accept.
As I said, I’m not a fan of the current party, and I hope that the right continues to degrade state capacity until neither side has much left to work with.
No, I actually don't. I always find it surprising when people not only just internally start ascribing irrelevant and probably-untrue things to their interlocutors so they can dismiss their ideas, but they actually say it out loud!
I don't understand what my prior comment has to do with any party at all. It was a direct response to your implicit claim about the US's obligations to Ukraine, and therefore to the rest of its security umbrella.
Well then you wouldn’t be in alignment with the mainstream of your party, who does seem to want that, at least if you look at blue state legislation.
As to how it has to do with the party, we were discussing the Democratic Party, Russia was a brief aside. But I do find that people’s position on the Russia/Ukraine conflict typically tends to say a lot about their other positions.
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