Comments by "Jennifer Lawrence" (@jenniferlawrence2701) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

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  120. From where I'm sitting it looks like the USA and Britain cynically used Ukraine as bait to damage Russia. Look at what we've been telling Ukraine for years: "You can have it all, you can be members of NATO and the EU, you can become just like Western Europe, and you can ignore the demands of your more powerful neighbor to the East, you don't have to make compromises with them." If we were willing to fight Russia on Ukraine's behalf, or if Ukraine was powerful enough to avoid invasion by Russia, those would be reasonable things to be telling them. But we aren't willing to fight Russia (and never were), and Ukraine is simply not powerful enough to prevail against a really determined Russia. So our approach was either grossly irresponsible or worse: deliberately designed to lead Ukraine down a very dangerous path. Which is it? Well, consider that we all saw Russia was willing to use force in Georgia in 2008, we've heard the Kremlin saying for years that they view Ukraine being made into a bulwark of Western power to be utterly unacceptable, we knew that we were infuriating Moscow by trying to take Ukraine out of their orbit, and we saw from 2014 onward that Russia was willing to wreck Ukraine before they allowed that to happen. It was always obvious that in any tug-of-war between the West and Russia over Ukraine, it would be Ukraine that would suffer the most. So given all that, I find it very hard to believe the approach taken by Washington and London was simply naive, accidental, or mistaken. It looks very much like the intent was to force Russia to either fight for Ukraine or lose it. Now we give (or sell, it isn't quite clear) Ukraine just enough weapons to prolong a fight we know they can't win. Have we been good friends to Ukraine in all of this? It doesn't look like it.
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  181.  @louislemar796  Washington and the Federalists were clearly, unambiguously Nationalists. There's no denying this. They consciously created a nation-state, inspired in large part by England. Nationalism doesn't argue the nation-state is the primary unit of moral value. It argues that nations should either be created or upheld where they exist, and that the liberties and self-interests of individual citizens must be balanced with their collective-interests as a nation. Individual rights are a contributor to the USA's success, but by no means the only or sole cause. Try this thought experiment: In 1789, take the exact same set of ideas - the exact same constitution - and put it in Iceland. Would Iceland have become become exactly as powerful as the USA? No. Not even remotely. Geography being the first of many reasons. Location matters, as does population size (and content), as do natural resources. The vast, resource-rich, continental United States was obtained by violent conquest. That's isn't a criticism of it or a call for Americans to feel shame, just an acknowledgment of historical fact. The individual liberty stuff came later. Take the violent conquest of that land by Europeans out of the equation and you don't get the USA's success, or even the USA at all. Then there's the USA's geopolitical competitors in Europe destroying themselves in two world wars, and so on... In short, it isn't just a set of ideas or rights that explain the USA's success, though they are undoubtedly an important part of the explanation.
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