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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Proxy wars seldom turn out good bird brain Biden about to prove it.
Hush, woman.
You Russians make Central_VA on here seem to be intelligent, sophisticated, and a good debater.
Who wrote that, some NATO sponge?
Hush Biden flack
Warmongering globalists WANT war with Russia and dream of dead people of European heritage covering a post-nuclear wasteland across the Northern Hemisphere.
Many people, on both sides, ARE that stupid.
“The West doesn’t seem to GAS about Russian threats. Seriously, they can’t defeat Ukraine yet they think they pose a threat to NATO?
That’s laughable.”
It is not laughable. Russia has over 6000 nuclear warheads. Many of these are in silos that will be destroyed in the first nuclear strike from NATO (USA).
As this war escalates it will reach a point that both sides are considering using a first strike so they can use their silo nukes before they are destroyed and hopefully destroy the enemies silo nukes before they are launched. The first strike will also try to decapitate the enemy to hopefully (from their point of view) limit the capability of their enemy to respond. DOOMS-DAY!!!
I lived through the Cold-War years with 21 of those years in the military. Never in those years did I ever feel we were close to dooms-day, but now I see it coming.
I pray someone will step-up and end this war before it kills all of us.
China plans to profit in land and resources no matter what.
All it takes is one little spark to start a fire that could destroy the world as we know it.
LOL
putin rejects Jesus with every evil bombing, rape and torture
Russia has not bombed civilians. Ukraine does it daily.
“They are going to wave nukes because that is the only thing they have to wave. But, I don’t think they would dare. Not even the Russians are that stupid.”
Yup.
China could invade Taiwan. If that happens Putin will take his gloves off.
Hitler attacked Russia because he wanted Lebensraum. Had nothing to do with the Pope. Hitler also attacked the rest of Europe. Are you going to tell me that Napoleon attacked Russia because he was commanded by the Pope to do so? How about Ghengis Khan? He too attacked Russia while he had a loooong way to travel.
China has sent weapons to Russia through Iran, as well as provided assistance to get around sanctions.
Exactly, the time to cut off your forces and shut down resupply to them is when they are doing well in battle.
That is war-winning rule number one, ‘starve battlefield success’, turn off the spigot in midstream, and leave’em hanging.
As long as you are ok with Mexico joining BRICS and putting Russian nukes on the border with us..
Goose. Gander.
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