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by littlestymaar 978 days ago
> Is the US supplying offensive weapons to Ukraine contributing to the national defense?

It's not. It's contributing to European security, and as such is necessary for the US to reaffirm their suzerainty over Europe, but it's not really about US defense and even less about National Security. (I'm glad they do btw, because we European powers would have left Ukraine fall after deciding it would be too expensive to help them…)
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golol 978 days ago
European security is national security via geopolitics. Being a global superpower has many benefits for US citizens.
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littlestymaar 978 days ago
> European security is national security via geopolitics.

If you consider “national security” to be a meaningless buzzword and not an actual concept, you can say that. It's as accurate as saying “US sports results at the Olympics is a national security issue via soft power”.

Pretty much everything is “national security” by that standards.

> Being a global superpower has many benefits for US citizens.

Sure, but most of them don't have anything to do with national security.

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