• ziggurat@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Or NATO just allows them to destroy airfields Russia is launching rockets from.

    So our choice is to give the purse to the thief that wants more land in the future, or slap the knife out of his hand

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      2 months ago

      Endless escalation is impossible. Russia has nukes.

      Even assuming Ukraine starts winning the conventional war against all odds, If the situation ever looks too dire Ukraine does not have the required MAD deterrence to prevent Russia from nuking them.

      • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.org
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        2 months ago

        Russia has nukes.

        At this point their nukes are likely in the same sorry state as their dictator: old, frail, failing

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      2 months ago

      Russia has far more military capacity than Ukraine. Every escalation runs the risk of Russia adopting NATO’s scorched earth tactics. Russia clearly sees value in the slow grind approach, which they explain as a de facto demilitarization of Ukraine, but if they ever stop seeing value in that…

      Don’t forget what NATO member countries do to their military targets and what the outcomes are. Every population center in North Korea bombed out. Agent orange, napalm, mass bombing campaigns in Laos and Vietnam. Reckless and depraved mass killings in Algeria. Two invasions of Iraq and interceding sanctions that killed millions of children, with a heavy focus on the destruction of civilian infrastructure.

      Hoping for escalation can only mean hoping fot mass death for Ukrainians. This is not a movie or an idle fantasy where we get to play pretend about knocking a knife out if the bad guys hands. This is the real world with actual troop deployments and bombing campaigns and industrial bases and drones that pick people off while they sleep and a country that still functions but can be made to not with about a week of bombings.