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  • It’s a trap.

    Anyway, Ukraine joining NATO would benefit NATO at least as much as it would Ukraine. Ukraine would effectively become the armoury of NATO, at the cutting edge of weapons and tactics development. (Similarly, if Russia were to win, it would find captured Ukrainian technologies very useful in Moldova/the Baltic States/Finland, and NATO would find having allowed this to happen to be a very false economy.) Ukraine is anything but dead weight, and we need to recognise this.


  • They’ve spent years brutalising their own population and turning them into orcs who will commit atrocities with glee. If they demobilised them, there’d be thousands of ex-soldiers primed to kill but suddenly denied targets and told to reintegrate into civilian society.

    Basically Russia’s army is a weapon which can be pointed outwards or inwards. If they’re not conquering Ukraine (and after that Poland and Finland and Berlin and down the Champs-Elysees), they’re raping and murdering random people in Russia. Which is incentive for Putin or any successor to keep it pointed outwards until some superior force physically stops them.