General Discussion

By far, the largest of those operations have been our wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Iran -- all launched by Republican presidents.

Personally, I think we would have been better off without wasting so much blood and treasure in those wars.

Of course, that's not why Trump is withdrawing troops from Germany and is telegraphing the same for Italy & Spain. He's miffed they haven't jumped on our Iran War bandwagon.

More telling, he made this move shortly after a long phone call with Vladimir Putin. Strategically, the goal is to weaken NATO at a time when the Russian Bear wants to claw back lands to the west.

The USA needs to exert leadership with our NATO allies in a united front in support of Ukraine against the Russian invasion. Western democracies have not faced such a threat since the collapse of the Soviet Union 35 years ago.

In the existential struggle between liberal democracy and authoritarianism, the current US president is clearly on the side of the latter, as is the Republican Party which looked to the Orban regime in Hungary as a model for our country.

We need to rise up and throw these fascists out, as the people of Hungary did.