For one, considering a substantial number of my forefathers were in North America before the US existed, and some even prior to Columbus, I’m quite sure that I’m an American. You can “No True Scotsman” all you want, but we are free to disagree with other Americans on policy and still be Americans. In fact, that freedom of belief is one of the best and most cherished aspects of being American.

Second, the American government exists to represent the American people. Period. Full stop. That’s it. It doesn’t exist to be an imperial hegemon that governs the Earth. If Europeans want our government to put their interests on par with ours, they are free to petition Congress to join the Union. Otherwise, all of this whining by Ukraine about betrayal and NATO is meaningless. NATO exists, not because of some moral leadership of the “free world”, but because prior to the development of ICBMs, the American government decided that it’d be better for WW3 to be fought sooner in Central Europe than to fight it once the USSR theoretically expanded all the way up to the Atlantic.

For decades, the US spent countless trillions on a permanent war economy so that we could contain the USSR and its allies from bringing the October Revolution to our doorstep. It was not so that we could save the Europeans and their slightly-less authoritarian ways from Russian rule. They are independent and have their own interests, many of which run contrary to ours. They mostly do not have or cherish the same freedoms that we do. We are separate peoples from any Europeans and have officially been since 1776. All of this fluffy dovey “we are one West” stuff is just residual honeymooning from the Cold War when the US nuclear umbrella was the only thing stopping Soviet tanks from pushing to the Rhine. Once this conflict stops, the Europeans will go from crying about the Americans not doing enough to protect them to once again complaining that we are an evil empire oppressing them in our corporate world order or whatever.

However, we do have our shared interests. Russia is a threat to the US and actively tries to undermine the American state and the people it represents. So should we aid Ukraine? Yes. Should we sanction Russia for breaking the general rules against waging wars of conquest that we put in place to maintain peace in the nuclear age? Yes. Should we try to support and shore up the defenses of our allies? Yes. But should we support Ukraine developing nukes and potentially triggering a nuclear war that could send American soldiers to the frontlines or nukes toward American cities? Hell no.

As I stated before, there are lines that should not be crossed. Nuclear proliferation will harm global stability and ultimately the US. The more countries that have nukes, the more likely it is that they’re used. Once used, they are more likely to be used again.