Problem is if the Russians are depleted of personnel they can always start pushing buttons. Only takes a couple of fingers to do that from a long way a ways. I was hoping it wouldn’t come to that but if it does, it will kill thousands, possible millions, of people. And could possibly escalate it into the world war adding China, Japan, and most of Europe and the UK. Look for Canada and the US to enter last as we have a bit of a bubble here for a while. All for a civil war no one should have got in to but them.
wy69
That is very true.
The thing is - what are the alternatives for Ukraine and for Ukraine supporters respectively?
For Ukraine - the opinion of the ordinary Ukrainian refugees we helped is that Putin can’t be trusted to just stay at the territory he has grabbed so far - he already claimed all of Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts. They believe that if they signed an armistice now, then Putin would return in a few years when world attention is elsewhere and he would grab more, returning them to war. So they say this is the only option.
For Ukraine’s supporters -
1. Stop all weapon transfers - ok, well and good, but the Ukrainians are still going to keep fighting. Putin may or may not keep the land he has - but either way the fighting continues and worse - if he gets it, then that opens the door for every other country to grab land by force
2. Send more weapons - again, fraught with danger, but there is a possibility that the Russians overthrew Putin as they overthrew the Tsar in 1917 (that is a possiblity for #1 as well of course)
3. Keep the status quo - which is what we are doing.
Good Question. If Russia uses a low yield bomb on Ukraine troop concentrations? would we attack with a first strike and end civilization on planet earth? What if Putin just destroys Kiev with a Hiroshima sized atomic bomb? What if Putin took out five Uke cities? Would that be worth killing Millions of Americans? Do you think they wouldn’t reply and hit us back? They have subs full of Nukes they could launch a second strike from. Does the Deep State want to be gone in a nuclear flash? I think not.