Would we be having a war in Ukraine if the West hadn't just started obsessing about all this stuff? It's a very good question and a very difficult one to answer. You have to remember that there are many people in Moscow and Beijing who look at the U.S. They see an army that spends more time messing around trying to figure out its pronouns than taking its military mission seriously. When you're morally disarmed, then being able to militarily and physically rearm is problematic.

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