Comments by "CedarHunt" (@CedarHunt) on "How the 2024 U.S. Election Is Already Shaping the Russia-Ukraine War" video.

Russia can come and try to collect any time they want. We're ready.
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@kingace6186 Nah, it's just a really stupid point. Russia at their best couldn't enforce that nonsense position and the US, unlike Europe, hasn't been dismantling our defense capabilities for the last 30 years.
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My favorite part is how they claim we are a bunch of uneducated idiots with a bad education system and seem to think that insulting us going to make us want to support them. 😂
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Not even slightly. The number one issue being voted on in this election is the economy with border enforcement as a close second. A war in Europe is pretty far down the list of pressing issues for most Americans. Maybe Europe should be increasing their support for Ukraine?
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Apparently, if we aren't keen on paying for European decadence forever, we're on the road to isolationism. Never mind that this is the exact position the Europeans wanted to take regarding China before the war started. They seemed happy to trade with China and take a neutral position before they suddenly realized the value of US protection. We'll certainly never forget that they were fairweather friends up to the moment they needed us.
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@u2beuser714 You have to understand how it looks from here. Many Americans were happy to help when the fighting started but there was a general perception and expectation that Europeans would react and take the lead since it was your countries and people potentially on the front lines. Then it became clear that wasn't going to happen, and the EU countries started squabbling over who would do what, and we realized that we were going to be expected to lead the way and foot the bill. All this after years of disinterest from European leaders regarding trade with China or pipelines to Russia and calling us warmongers and refusing to see the threat we warned you about for years.
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@Darkbribe09 That's hilarious. "As a percentage of GDP, the US is doing less." Apparently Europe wants to hand out participation trophies. 😂 I would certainly hope that Europe was doing more but we both know thats not true. This is YOUR problem regarding the safety of YOUR countries. Step up or shut up.
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@baneofbanes Fascinating. So you'd say that China and India, and Iran and pretty much every country in Africa and South America are isolationist, too? None of them are subsidizing European defense, yet oddly, they still have trade relations and all kinds of things. 🤔
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I'm confident you just made that up 😂
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 @kingace6186 I clearly understand the issues better than you do. Since all you can do is throw insults in place of a reasoned argument, I'll call this discussion closed.
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 @andrewbrock4636 I would prefer we not give them a path to defacto residency and send them all home immediately upon detention.
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@andrewbrock4636 The biggest issue I saw while reading it is the part involving what to do with people who are detained without documents. They would be allowed to live in US communities under the supposed scrutiny of an asylum officer and would in theory have to be interviewed within 90 days of admission. The issue is that after 90 days they can get work permits and live free until they can be evaluated. From a practical standpoint that means these people will effectively be free and clear in the US since there arent enough asylum officers to handle all the cases and the backlog would take years, possibly decades, to work through even if all border crossing went to zero the day the bill was signed. All they have to do is throw away their passports. It's a rather large and conspicuous hole in the idea.
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Yeah we saw it. We got a good laugh at Putins expense and moved on. We have the receipt and, unlike Europe, the military hardware to defend our borders. If Putin tries to fight us for it they wont be able to find enough of him to bury in a shoebox.
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@srakobuntu7696 Hahaha, from what? 😂
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@srakobuntu7696 Oh, sure, we're shaking in our boots. Come and get it. 😂😂😂
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@Daddydorf13 Europe has China as their largest trading partner. How much has the CCP donated to European defense? Clearly we can match their level of investment and keep our business and interests in Europe. Europe didn't listen to us regardless so.... what sphere of influence are we trying to maintain? The one where we are ignored regarding sourcing oil from Russia? The one where we are passed over in favor of China for trade terms? The one where we are laughed at when we ask our vaunted European allies to actually honor the 2% defense spending agreement they signed back in 2011?
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@Theofiilus2978 Who gutted their military spending and all but disarmed under the hilarious theory that there would never be a war in Europe? Who built a pipeline and made themselves completely dependent on a hostile Empire with overt intentions of invading? Who has been ignoring all reason and sense for decades? Oh, right, it was Europe.
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The Russians are pushing hard because they know they are on a deadline. They invaded because Biden is weak and incompetent, and they overestimated how much that weakness would affect US response to the invasion. The Russians know that Trump isn't in their pocket and that he's a loose cannon at the best of times. He could pull all support or send in troops or give Ukraine ballistic missiles and say we don't care if they use them on Russian cities. Under Biden, the US hasn't cared about losing drones or having our planes harassed over the Black Sea. Under Trump, who knows what the line could be? An insult on social media could be the prelude to a direct war, which would see the Russians rolled up and humiliated.
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Do you notice what is missing from that list? Weapons. Biden didn't send weapons or trainers to Ukraine. Trump did that.
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