Ah yess - the "big" picture: Russia sends troops into Ukraine, then Lithiuania and possibly Estonia and Latvia. We stay silent because '"hey all those people speak Russian (don't they) so maybe that's not such a bad thing, right? We send lots of our tax dollars to N. Korea in the form of foreign aid - they end up with a thriving economy at which time they invade S. Korea. We stay silent - because KJU has approved a Trump Tower, a Trump golf course and maybe even a casino in Pyong Yang - and, ooops - they still have their complete nuclear arsenal. Not just seeing the picture - hearing that "sucking" sound of our integrity circling the drain.... should make for a blockbuster movie.

@Lavergne I for one am sick of our thinking that Only We Hold The Keyy ( to???) And inevitably it makes things far worse for everybody.

@annewimsey500 Well, we do have the biggest economy in the world; bigger than all the EU countries combined. And we did get there by burning more fossil fuels than anyone else (roughly.25% of all that was burned in the 20th century, and our population was only 5% of the world population). So we are more responsible for global warming and its consequences than any other nation. Maybe it's not a bad thing that we give back a little by lending a little stability to the world order. (We would be more effective at it if we didn't engage in blatantly stupid destabilizing actions like invading Iraq the second time, or ousting democratically-elected governments in Central and South America and Iran in order to install puppet regimes friendly to US fruit and fossil fuel corporations).