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No. Occam's razor - we want to support democracy, see NATO as our allies, and don't want to let either down.

Nah. That's one of the things you tell yourself. It's okay, we're all the heroes of our own stories.

You know the big military buildup that Reagan gets complete credit for started under Carter. Carter? !#@%$&^%$ Carter? Yes, and Reagan acknowledged it.

Carter wasn't a completely horrible President. He's an honorable guy who was wrong a lot.
Reagan, rightly, gets credit for transforming America's military in the 1980's because that's exactly what he did. The machine that destroyed Saddam's armies in Gulf War I was a direct result of the Reagan-era buildups in technology, training and capability. That's not in dispute.

Plenty of us believe in the rules based order that has developed to keep the peace, and also know we have to be ready.

Good for you.

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