Posted on 01/26/2023 1:15:13 PM PST by JonPreston
From day one of the war in Ukraine, the most powerful argument against unrestrained western intervention in the conflict has been the danger of catastrophic escalation into an all-out war between Nato and Russia.
So far, western governments have shied away from a truly existential confrontation with Russia. But the threat remains that continuing western military aid to Ukraine will provoke Russian countermeasures that could turn Moscow’s proxy war with Nato into a direct military conflict.
Western hawks have long argued the danger of escalation is illusory. In an op-ed for the New York Times, former British diplomat Nigel Gould-Davies claimed “Putin has no red lines” and that, far from being deterred by fear of escalation, the West should call Putin’s bluff and threaten Russia with nuclear retaliation if he overreacts to western support for Ukraine.
Gould-Davies provides no hard evidence for his insights into Putin’s mind. His argument is pure speculation, and prompts the question: what if Putin won’t back away from a major war with the West? Should Nato be taking even a small risk of igniting a larger conflict that could kill millions?
Putin’s restraint in the face of massive western military aid to Ukraine has been remarkable but his forbearance may not be boundless. If the West goes too far, he may be tempted to risk a degree of escalation himself by, for example, interdicting western supplies before they arrive in Ukraine, or by neutralising the Nato surveillance systems that provide Kyiv with intelligence that enables deadly strikes on Russian targets.
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2nd time
you need to tell yourself the truth
Applause!!
That is exactly who they are.
I am going to bookmark your post for use. Thank you.
“Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction, and in mankind’s willingness to use it.” (The Fourth Turning, Strauss & Howe, 1997)”
That is a very good book as all their books are. Generations!
The West isn’t in Ukraine, I guess you mean withdraw support.
Why would the West submit to Russian threats? Russia isn’t in charge of anything but Russia.
That’s nice. Doesn’t change the fact that Scott Ritter is a twice-convicted child molester.
Quit doing mass pings.
Well what the pilots are not told is that the plane IS the bomb...
The Russians seem to be the kind of people who are not happy unless they are not happy.
A miserable people
No my kind of Christianity
Yeah, I think you could make that argument.
“Then why aren’t they in Kiev? Odessa? And why haven’t they re-installed Yanukovych?
I mean, if the Ukrainian military was defeated months ago, why are Russians still getting killed by them?”
Yeah makes me wonder how their brains are wired when they make such claims that fly straight in the face of reality.
“Well what the pilots are not told is that the plane IS the bomb...”
Ahhh. Good point.
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Nuclear? That's where we may be headed.
“Yeah makes me wonder how their brains are wired when they make such claims that fly straight in the face of reality.”
They are just doing as they are told. They are like automatons. Then, some are just too far gone in their insularity that they are incapable of independent thought, and just default to the level of their indoctrination.
No... he was twice convicted of cops, pretending to be 16, dirty talking to a man over a computer. Now, back to the real issue. He is one outlier to the extent he pondered doing something. Oddly, that set up and charge came when he loudly came out against Bush and his WMD lie.
The pantheon of human sex trafficking and child molesting groomers is in lockstep in their support of Ukraine. That’s just a hard cold fact.
“Tense times.”
Yup. And it came and went so quickly that most of America had no idea it had even taken place. Many still don’t.
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