US to stand by Ukraine on Crimea annexation

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12. We will always have enough problems right here at home.

During WWII, you may recall, we had a bit of a Great Depression going on. Nasty, that. Should have stayed home. Perhaps Russia could have knocked Hitler back even after Invasion of Britain. Perhaps not, and Russia would know be known as the Union of Soviet Siberian Republics, composed principally of territory east of the Urals.

Or perhaps so, and we'd have the Eurasian Union of Soviet States, stretching from Greenland to Kamchatka. If that had collapsed, who'd have rescued them? Rather like Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism with no bailout. I mean, you'd have Transdnistria writ large.


I'm sure there was some problem of some urgency to somebody during WWI. Perhaps the franchise for women? If not, certainly civil rights. Workers rights. And yet off we went.


By the same token the various supporters we had during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 had better things to do than help the US. Not their problem, they had other fish to fry. Without their help, perhaps we'd be Commonwealth now, having gotten our independence as a result of WWII. Then again, perhaps we'd have been attacked much more aggressively and earlier in WWiI, since there was no need to wait until after Pearl Harbor. As part of the Empire, we'd have been up with with any other part of the Empire.