Will America commit to a shooting war with Russia if Putin invades the Ukraine over joining NATO?

Afghanistan is not the same as Ukraine. It is not the same as Taiwan. Ukraine and Taiwan are also dissimilar based on politics, history and terrain.

https://warontherocks.com/2022/01/taiwan-is-not-ukraine-stop-linking-their-fates-together/

LTC Eugene Chu Nice job of deflection. The intent of my post was not a comparison of Taiwan to Ukraine, but shows our tepid response to Russian’s beginning invasion encourages China to go for Taiwan. We will see how it plays out, if Russia fully invades and take over Ukraine.

LTC Eugene Chu - And our promise to defend them if they gave up their nukes means what?

@SFC Bernard Walko from your own writing "And all this time we didn’t have terrorists breathing down our neck trying to take down our leadership" are you talking about January 6th, all those maga lovers trying to kill Pelosy and Pence?

SSG Bill McCoy - One of my business school classmates is Russian. When I asked her about Alaska, she mentioned that Russians do not care that America purchased the land over 150 years ago. The czar's government needed money and Alaska was a burden for Russia based on cost and logistics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoR_k4Go9W8

LTC Eugene Chu - Yes, but imagine if we hadn't bought it ... or even had we not made it a state! With Russian (or past USSR) bases been in the Alaska territory, we'd have been in a real pickle.

That purchase was one of unintended brilliance on our part, giving us a cheap buffer zone, which the Russians [now] claim to have not cared about. I'm pretty sure they look back at it and privately regret that sale. They're always pushing for extended access into Europe and beyond, which is the reason they wanted to invade Ukraine.

Putin badly wants to control The Black Sea and gain access to Europe, even if it means challenging Turkey in violation of the 1936 accord and bringing us into the fight. The only way we can stop them is when Turkey asks us, as we're not an authorized player for the protection of its waters unless we're invited in. So when we do go in at Turkey's behest, Putin will call on his alliance with China to thin our forces. Bishop to King 4 and we're out...?

We're in for an extended challenge by Russia for worldwide hegemony, so Putin's chess game is slowly unveiling itself. I wonder where Xi Jingping and his huge army comes into the fray? Let's see...when we challenge Russia's entry into The Black Sea--China will challenge us elsewhere to pull our resources away and make us fight on two fronts. It'll be a sleight of hand distraction while Jingping runs his game to our west. Those two are out to divide the allies and conquer at will!

With both our adversaries pulling out all the stops with hypersonic weapons development and bolstering their forces, we had better get our battle plans in order...and I'm concerned about the readiness and fitness of the younger generations whose exercise routines are video games and junk food.

This won't be pretty.

At this time, neither Finland nor Sweden are members of NATO. Both countries will decide about applying for NATO membership by mid-summer.

I'm not entirely sure. Trump was a hard president to read. One day he is pro Putin, the next he is all but threatening to launch ICBMs at his head. I think that if Trump was in office and if he told Putin to back off, and Putin (being Putin) thumbed his nose at him again, we would already have boots and tanks on the ground in Kiev.

PFC John Behrman - It may be hard to say but we know Trump shared highly classified data with Russia and we most likely do not know what all was shared with Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/trump-revealed-intelligence-secrets-to-russians-in-oval-office-officials-idUSKCN18B2MX

1SG (Join to see) - So let's see what you are jabbering about....
You post an article that completely refutes the claim that Trump shared any classified information, but you insist that the article you posted must be wrong because you don't like Trump, so he must be guilty of something.
You fail to recognize that it is IMPOSSIBLE for the president to reveal "classified" material in any unauthorized manner, because HE is the ultimate authority controlling the classification of the material.

MSG Thomas Currie - Have a nice day.