> If the US had lower military spending, other countries wouldn't feel the need to be aggressive. Ah, just like Ukraine thwarted Russian ambitions with its low

> If the US had lower military spending, other countries wouldn't feel the need to be aggressive. Ah, just like Ukraine thwarted Russian ambitions with its low defense spending pre-2014. Why bother invading a defenseless country, after all? And those poor sods in the Baltics got invaded by Russia and overthrown after joining NATO, of course, since that needlessly antagonized Putin.