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Yup.  I have a lot of ETFs of varying types, but also some Costco and Apple which has done very well of course, but I sold some Apple mostly to rebalance.  I'm looking at Costco but not yet ready to sell.  A problem is where to reinvest any proceeds.

We've eliminated most of our individual stocks over the last 6 months.  Mostly in etfs and treasuries. 

Do we want to go back to the old days where powerful authoritarians decide to invade their neighbors?
How does this advantage the United States?
I remember when my former secretary's husband, who was displaced in WWII at age 11, returned to Estonia in the 1990s to request his family's property after Estonia became an independent state after the fall of communism which displaced his family's property, and Estonia was trying to restore property to former owners 50-years later. (It didn't go well as local cousins prevailed).
I understand that not all of you understand your heartfelt beliefs, but if you think appeasing Putin and Rusia is best, articulate why that is so great for America to destroy the system that kept us out of major military disputes for the past 80-years. Our alliances have kept us out of entanglements that the USSR and Russia presented us, in my opinion.
Explain your opinion.
Thanks.

Gentlemen, if you agree with the strategy of Neville Chamberlain to appease and acquiesce to Hitler's invasions of European countries, how did that advantage the United States? By the way, that was our country's strategy and the popular belief in the lead up to WW II, until we were attacked by Japan.

I'm rather sympathetic to Chamberlain in this.  Most history puts him in a terrible light of appeasement, but I think he really had no practicable alternative choice.  France decided the issue, not Chamberlain.

I also think this is a poor analogy because the next countries west other than Moldova are NATO members, and Poland alone has a very credible military.  Russia couldn't even overrun Ukraine, they'd have zero chance against Poland.  Putin won't be alive for many more years anyway, hopefully.

And when you really think about it, things have worked out really well for US despite our size. It seems like there is just so much that every little area specliazes in. Silicone Valley and Hollywood out West. Logging in the PNW. Oil and gas in the S and SE. Financial centers in NY and Chicago. Manufacturing in the Midwest. Vermont has…errr I have no idea.

Syrup. Lots of it. Maybe some cheese. 

I always laugh when some derpy slapdick talks about Alaska's size, usually in some weak attempt to put a Texan in his place.

Nobody lives in Alaska.  Nobody wants to live in Alaska.  There's a significant reason why.

I'll give you a hint-- around 90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US border.

"EotM"???  might just want to change the M to the Missouri

Hah!

Iowa might have many things to be proud of if narrowing it down to east of the Missouri and west of the Mississippi