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Originally Posted by MMM
And no, it isn't that simple. You make it sound like America is of one mind, and they just walk into any situation like Rambo and blow everything up and ask questions later. That is simplistic and simply wrong.
If our ally is being attacked then it is not only our duty but a requirement to help them. If that help is in the form of military defense and is what is needed, then that is what happens........
Allies help allies. That is all the justification that is needed.
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Using your own words - "and no, it's not that simple."
For instance, the USA supplied Georgia by various weaponry and even called georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili as an "ally" but later refused to support Georgia by any sort of military actions during
2008 South Ossetia War
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Mikheil Saakashvili (Georgian: მიხეილ სააკაშვილი, IPA: [mixɛil sɑɑkʼɑʃvili]; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian politician, the third and current President of Georgia and leader of the United National Movement Party..........He is widely regarded as a pro-NATO and pro-USA leader who has spearheaded a series of political and economic reforms......President Saakashvili sees membership of the NATO as a premise of stability for Georgia and offered an intensified dialogue with the de facto Abkhaz and Ossetian authorities. Until the 2008 South Ossetia war, a diplomatic solution was thought to be possible. Saakashvili's administration doubled the number of its troops in Iraq, making Georgia one of the biggest supporters of Coalition Forces, and keeping its troops in Kosovo and Afghanistan to "contribute to what it describes as global security".[13]
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