"At its heart, war is a fundamentally stupid enterprise."

 Only stupid people think that sending billions and billions of weapons to a new "live action" testing ground makes the world safer.  It's not Putin who is doing this.  It's the American politicians who have enabled a little "country" to think that we have their back in defending their borders.  We don't though.

We can't afford to prop up -- defensively -- all the smaller countries who rely on Americans to protect them from their neighbors.

A one-time injection of "war capital" to fend off a surprise incursion is one thing... 

Writing blank checks for years and years and years of defensive aid so that a country can unilaterally draw its own borders, relying on American taxpayer generosity to stand?  Those days have passed, friends.

Independence means something.  Self reliance too.  If a country needs the United States of America to spend billions to prop it up, maybe it really needs to rely on neighbors -- not the United States -- for its protection and survival.

That's the harsh truth the New York Times is tiptoeing around on today's anniversary...

Look at America first.  Our needs here at home matter more to freedom and democracy in the world than setting borders abroad, sadly.  Maybe the world will be a better place when we recognize reality and start treating all of our neighbors better, in America, Europe and the Middle East too.

Pray for peace, people everywhere.  Globalists and international businessmen, and foreign travellers too.