You are wrong about everything about my political beliefs and have mischaracterized my posts. I've mentioned negs a couple of times in passing and have said nothing about "cancel culture" whatsoever.
As I stated there were hiccups but in the long run -- look at it now, literally the capital of the European Union. If you'd told people that ni 1830 they'd think you were as insane as y'all are characterzing me for believing that Ukraine could be an eastern analogue.
*One thing I wanted to get out of the way -- yesterday you claimed that I watched RT and suggested I did so regularly. I watched RT once for a half hour months ago and could see right through their BS propaganda approach. What I have done a little more frequently is read RT.com, where the propaganda is far more opaque -- subtle to the point of hardly being propaganda at all. And I haven't done that in a week or so.
This is the one critique of the realist philosophy of IR that gives me pause, but I truly believe that, sadly, not every country can be a liberal democracy, and that it is in American fallacy that every country wants to be a liberal democracy, or should be a liberal democracy. Or that the proliferation of nation states is always a good thing. Former Yugoslavia has already gone up in flames once and remains a tinderbox today. Absent strongmen leaders, minorities suffer terribly in Middle Eastern states, and out crusade to westernize that region ended fast and badly in Iraq. (Remember, the plan the Iraq war's architects was to march on to Syria and Iran after our swift victory there.)
Again it goes back to Thucydides: strong nations do what they will, weak nations what they must. America has egged Ukraine on for years now and now the country is in ruins and it almost seems dishonorable now for us not to come to their aid in a more direct manner; else, this is just a repeat of us encouraging the Kurdish uprising in Iraq in the first Gulf War and then standing by when Saddam crushed them after we left. Or any number of other times we've used the Kurds like a ten-dollar whore.