Posted on 04/18/2022 11:53:14 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Yes. War is very bad. It is therefore extremely important to avoid it at almost all costs.
When a larger and more powerful neighbor threatens war if you do “a”, you should really consider not doing “a” - that is, if you care more about your people than what Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken are telling you.
Witch burning in Salem was a very short-lived phenomenon, put an end to by insisting on objective proof of an overt act of witchcraft, rather than the subjective sensations that were deemed admissible as evidence during the witch trials of that narrow period of hysteria in the new world.
Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake, Novocristos caught “Judaising” in Spain were burnt at the stake, and in the illuminated manuscript of Marco Polo’s travels, there is a picture of a “heretic” being burnt at the stake en route to China. But none of them met this picturesque end on account of rigorous cross-examinations and examination of the evidence and conflicting claims. On the contrary, confessions were extracted under torture, and the testimony of witnesses was not allowed if they were considered unfit to swear before G-d the truth of their statements by reason of being Jews, Moors, women or unrighteous men. I.e., impeachment of testimony by ad hominem.
“Wars should only be fought when the consequences of not fighting them are worse than the consequences war itself,” such as enslavement or annihilation, according to Ernest Hemingway, who fought in WW I. I don’t think Victoria Nuland or Anthony Blinken are the ones persuading the Ukrainians to fight. It’s their home. They should fight for it. America, however, should just give them the tools they need to win, and stay out of their way.
“Was it you?”
Nope, not me. I was USAF.
BTW: I have been very critical of the free and easy use of the appellation “Nazi” in the media in general and on FR in particular; I had rather thought the latter would not be so indiscriminately and widely tossed about by FReepers. Sad to see.
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