“ WHen you came up with this solution, were you high? ”
I think he was speaking from a fairness standpoint. For example when someone breaks into your home you don’t negotiate with the invader what rooms he can occupy. You make arrangements to have him forcibly removed and arrested, or depending on the situation, end his life. Him leaving your property vertically or horizontally is how it ends. I think that’s what he was referring to.
>> Him leaving your property vertically or horizontally is how it ends.
Sometimes it’s hard to get your crazy uncle out of the spare bedroom...
How about if he murdered your children in their bedrooms?
Great Powers are unconcerned with fairness. Any perceived risk to a Greta Power is an existential risk. No one will save Russia but Russia. NATO knows how this game works, so they started the war by regime change in UKR, knowing Russia would invade.