Idk man, arming Ukraine is hardly ‘peace for our time’. Getting into a shooting war with Russia has apocalypse potential. I tend to agree we should do more but I see only dangerous choices here for everyone.
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a shooting war with russia would go very poorly for russia.
something something shithole country argle bargle
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Letting Putin win, or letting the war drag out for years, both also come with major risks. Everything is risky right now.
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https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1511432943876648969
https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1511433200605802506
Yes. And then what? Putin says, “well played, chaps, I surrender. of course I won’t be using any of these nukes”?
I’m not saying he’ll defo nuke New York if he’s backed into a corner but I’m pretty sure it’s in his range. And that makes doing the right thing here while limiting escalation a tough needle to thread.
Yeah, it’s problem.
Lol at nits trying to do risk-free foreign policy.
It seems like Ukraine has some memory of the last time they were really under the thumb of the Russians and 3M died, so they aren’t going to fight for a stalemate. There seem to be a lot more Ukrainians willing to die than Russians, and they are running out of Russians. I would bet $20 Putin will announce an end to the war within the next month.
Fuck. I would have been all over that.
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The Russians are only killing all men of military age they find. IT’S NOT GENOCIDE. There are no mobile crematoriums. Everyone just needs to calm down.
Russians will be happy to breed with the widows.
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Putin never announces the end of the war. Maybe the end of the special military operation or whatever, but that’s different.
I have a feeling volunteers in Bucha resisted at first, and therefore the whole town was made into an example. Leaving the bodies lying in the street was deliberate to scare the local residents into not resisting. Not cleaning them up when they left was to send a message to any future towns about what happens to those who resist.
https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1511378262198530052
https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1511378830526935041
Nah for sure he’s going to make an announcement saying the special operation is over at some point. Everyone wants their ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner moment, but whether that means things are going to go back to normalized relations is another thing.
Calling Biden NC for not wanting to jump into a shooting war with a country loaded with nuclear weapons that is led by a fucking monster is a spicy take.
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Fwiw. NC gets a bad rap.
NC in 1939 was much more like Biden today. Facing bad choices to try and prevent a war they knew would be as bad or as worse as WW1. Which was in very recent memory.
Churchill was a racist war hungry psychopath. But he had his “even a stopped clock is right twice a day” moment in WW2.