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Is USA biding longer time to take on Russia for Ukraine than it took on Iraq for Kuwait ? Has nuke power of Russia made the difference?

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  • Pete
    Lv 5
    7 years ago
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    The USA won't be taking on Russia. Both the war in Kuwait and the war in Iraq were fought by coalition forces. In the case of the Ukraine, European countries don't want a confrontation with Russia in their back yard escalating. The Ukraine haven't asked for US troops to be deployed to western Ukraine because they know that Russia would respond by deploying troops in eastern Ukraine.

  • Kini
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    The U.S. does not want to attack Russia. Their sanctions have done enough damage thank you. In 2011 Russia and U.S. agreed on a treaty to reduce nuclear weapons. The U.S. has many more weapons than Russia but this is not the Cold War where there is a standoff between two spheres of influence. The U.S. HAS all the influence. If the U.S. can fool the U.N. with Colin Powell's mobile weapons lab in Iraq cartoon, the U.S. can create fake satellite imagery of Russian tanks "invading" the Ukraine and have all the western media present it as authentic.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    The USA is not to blame for its own chickenhearted cowardliness as we have many brave troops but it is only our chickenhearted and cowardly President who is to blame. It would be ONE thing if he would just keep his darn mouth shut but he keeps opening up his big yap to grandstand like he did with Syria and then he backs down. A good cartoon would show him drawing line after line in the sand continually backing up. Occasionally he roars like a lion and stomps his feet and shakes his mane and acts like he is some big deal and then he turns out to be a total wuss and POOH SAY. If he would just not say anything in the first place it would not look so weak later when he chickens out, backs down, and lies there quivering and pissing on his own belly. Disgusting! Personally I do not care if Russia takes the Ukraine so I would never have said anything about it, but I am pissed off now that the Malaysian aeroplane was shot down. Putin, for whom I prayed daily for many years, has now committed murder and there is blood on his hands from that mass murder of the crew and passengers. I have always known that Ukraine and Russia were historically inseperable but that did not justify murdering the people on that aeroplane at ALL. Our real problem is with the Jihad not with Russia. And also, when did possession of nuclear arms ever NOT make a difference.

  • whoo
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    Look who's in the WH . He is still thinking what to do. He does nothing to help the USA. But we should stay our of Russia business , and take over Iraq.

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  • y
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    What bothers me more is that Russia went in over last weekend yet the media and this administration, didn't really cover it until yesterday? Seems strange.

  • Daniel
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    And the fact that Russia hasn't actually invaded a country. Their moves, mostly politically, have been counter-moves to the EU/NATO, the true aggressors.

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