[dabluecaboose]

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse."

-John Stuart Mill

[giraffe_lady]

Thinking nothing is worth a war is not the problem the US has with war, historically.

[ahartmetz]

Quite true, but the war at hand is clearly one of defense (for the Ukrainian side).

[avgcorrection]

Maybe the same applied to the British Empire of John Stuart Mill’s time.

[mensetmanusman]

It took Pearl Harbor to get America involved in WW2.

Prior ~80% were against doing anything to resist Hitler that might result in violent conflict.

[avgcorrection]

America was famously “isolationist” at the time, yes. Obviously one is talking about US policy after WWII and up until the present.