FDR was not advocating American aggression. American aggression in the form of NATO expansion, was the primary, perhaps sole, driver in Putin's illegal and ill advised attack on the Ukraine.
America would have responded the same if Russia had vowed to enter a NATO like alliance with Mexico.
The US did nothing of the kind when Germany tried that with Mexico in 1917. And Putin's illegal unprovoked invasion shows that Ukraine SHOULD have become part of NATO.
My grandpa got to meet him as a child & their picture was in the local paper. President FDR was touring the Infantile paralysis therapeutic pool at Riley hospital. My grandpa was there along with other children who had gotten Polio. He always spoke so highly of FDR!
if we want a say in the shape of the world--a world we are very much a part of--then we have to step up and take responsibility for that world. no one else is going to do it!
So, we don't want to be a lone island dominated by the philosophy of force, but we do want to export that force across the planet by way of the Monroe doctrine?
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America would have responded the same if Russia had vowed to enter a NATO like alliance with Mexico.