You consider a sovereign country fighting against an invader to be “escalating” a conflict by these actions? What do you consider their duty is, to just bend over and take it?
“Russia has the ability to escalate far beyong the level of Ukraine.”
***Which is why the Ukraine is asking for help from everybody. The last time a regional tyrant bully invaded his neighbor over oil & gas rights, an international coalition kicked his ass back to Iraq. Similar thing is happening here, just more piecemeal.
It’s not our problem, and if Zelenskyy wants everyone and everything destroyed he should continue apace.
Stay out of Crimea and the two breakaway regions and negotiate an end.
And spare me the what if Mexico did that to us.
We are the most dominant military power in the world.
The Ukraine is weaker than Russia.
It’s easy for an anonymous American to be tough on the internet.