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The US may be in the more "morally correct" position on Ukraine, but it hardly has a reputation for its "moral position in the world". It has managed to retain
by mysecretaccount 4y ago
The US may be in the more "morally correct" position on Ukraine, but it hardly has a reputation for its "moral position in the world". It has managed to retain hard and soft power through its own invasions, and would likely not give up any of either if negotiating deescalation in Ukraine to avoid nuclear armageddon.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoA perfect reputation? No. More perfect than Russia? Than China? Yes.
- mysecretaccount 4y agoSure. But that is not relevant to the original point: if its own imperialist missteps this century did not do it, deescalation here will absolutely not wreck the US's reputation.