we have to fight and pay for it!
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Go for it, but don’t rob America for a severely corrupted regime that has no strategic importance to America. There is a good analogy in the Aviation community.
When flying at 42,000 feet and sudden cabin depression occurs, the ADULT is instructed to put his oxygen mask on FIRST, then the child’s. If not , both die.
The adult (America) needs to take care of their own first, then the child ( Ukraine), if not, both will perish together….as we are witnessing.
“When flying at 42,000 feet and sudden cabin depression occurs, the ADULT is instructed to put his oxygen mask on FIRST, then the child’s. If not , both die.
The adult (America) needs to take care of their own first, then the child (Ukraine), if not, both will perish together….as we are witnessing.
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I like your metaphor.
However... in the scenario of the Russia on Ukraine war, it won’t fit in.
I prefer this metaphor:
Imagine a cruise ship with 195 cabins.
The cruise ship represents Mother Earth.
The 195 cabins represent the 195 countries of the planet.
If we have violent passengers in cabin No. 55 (drunk Russians) who decides to go berserk and set their neighbor cabin No. 56 (occupied by an Ukrainian couple) on fire... and imagine if the other passengers from the other cabins nearby decides to ignore that fire... saying “it’s not OUR cabin burning thus not OUR business to do anything about it”. Well... what would happen??
Well... in such a scenario it would precipitate the spread of the fire to other cabins nearby, and to the next... and to the next... very quickly. When 10 cabins are burning... there is a high risk of the entire ship being compromised - sinking with all the 195 cabins of the ship going down with it.
THAT is the situation Russia has imposed to the world by simply setting fire to one of its neighbors : Ukraine.
Russia is playing with fire and risks igniting the whole ship (Mother Earth) as my metaphor explained above... - especially since they are ALSO playing the nuke-talk-threats on a near weekly basis...
Cabins / countries on Mothership Earth can’t let the fire spread unhindered from “cabin to cabin” / region to region without the risk it spreads all over, including “cabin America”.
Thats why America, Nato and the EU are putting “firewalls” against the firestorm form where it is originating from : Russia.