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by giraffe_lady 1091 days ago
Thinking nothing is worth a war is not the problem the US has with war, historically.
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Quite true, but the war at hand is clearly one of defense (for the Ukrainian side).
Maybe the same applied to the British Empire of John Stuart Mill’s time.
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.

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