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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (302678)9/16/2024 7:28:17 PM
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how about de-escalating by removing all your troops from Ukraine? ... It would mean Russia conquered and USA taken over Ukraine including Crimea.

You have a strange set of defaults. If Russia withdrew from Ukraine, that would return to the status quo ante, not the US or NATO taking over Ukraine. The US doesn't does not set out to absorb other countries like Russia with Ukraine. When it moves in, it fixes or messes things up depending on one's perspective, and then leaves the real estate to its rightful owner. The US has no interest in increasing its real estate. Countries have boundaries. The US and Europe are committed to respecting those established boundaries. Russia wants to grow Russia, restore Greater Russia if not the Soviet Union turf by taking over other peoples' turf. Your word usage consistently negates the default, which is that everybody retains its own patch. That makes Europe and NATO and the US good citizens of the world at least to that extent of basic respect for boundaries because they have no designs on any other country's turf. Whatever else the good guys may do, in the final analysis they respect the default lines on the map. That's Civilization 101.

WRT your terminology, those who covet and attack the turf of others are the aggressors. Everybody else is shoring up the defaults. When one countries troops are in another country, it matters if they are there at the request of the country being shored up or to conquer. That's the critical marker.
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