• ColeSloth
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    1 年前

    Because placing putin in a completely unwinnable position will greatly increase/hasten the likelihood of nuking Ukraine and possibly other areas of Europe into a sheet of glass.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, well, this is what everyone thought in Georgia, and Ukraine in 2014.

      He’s not going to change. His chosen successor probably won’t either.

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s the weirdest philosophy. Can’t shoot the grizzly bear, that might enrage it and cause it to maul us faster.

        • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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          With the only saving grace being that he’s actually like a hesitant coyote not big enough to take a combined Europe, but with a bomb strapped to its chest.

    • Siegfried@lemmy.world
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      You are right, we have to give putin more ground so next time he does this shit he will… have more power? Are you sure this math of yours is working?

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          I doubt there’s an easy solution. Right now the play is squeezing Russia at a slow pace, hopefully causing the country to bleed itself dry and most of its people there calling for a war to fizzle out and running them out of a fighting force. Continue keeping Russia in a state of hardship.

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        I’m not saying give him ground. I’m saying ww3 would best be avoided.