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With the US finding any way to tease Russia into attacking first, intentional war is just as likely now as an accidental one.
by finid 10y ago
With the US finding any way to tease Russia into attacking first, intentional war is just as likely now as an accidental one.
- yarrel 10y agoYour low opinion of Russia is showing.
- finid 10y agoActually because of the restraint Russia has been showing in the last few years, I hold their leadership in very high regard.
- int_19h 10y agoRussia was the first country in Europe to invade and annex a part of a neighboring country since, what, WW2? If that's restraint, I hesitate to ask what the lack of it would look like.
- jacquesm 10y agoTurkey, Cyprus.
- int_19h 10y agoTurkey didn't annex Northern Cyprus. Nor did Albania annex Kosovo, nor Russia itself annexed South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria before. It's the combination of invasion and annexation - effectively, waging war for a formally acknowledged territorial gain - that makes the situation in Crimea unique post WW2.
- jacquesm 10y agoWell, technically it was Greece that tried the annexation and Turkey does maintain a large military on Cyprus. But you're right, the Crimea is both in scale, scope and ambition on a different level.
- xnlvkYDNCXjJw 10y agoDidn't Russia annex Crimea? How are the sanctions not Russia's fault??
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoWhich restraint would that be?
- enraged_camel 10y agoIt's the opposite: they have shown an incredible amount of restraint in the face of overwhelming opposition and crippling sanctions from Europe and USA.
- dagenleg 10y agoWell, nobody wants to die in a Nuclear War.
- vkou 10y agoIt might surprise, and horrify you to know that a large number of high-ranking US staff think that nuclear war is winnable [1]. It makes my blood boil. [1] http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-nuclear-war-becoming-thinkable/ http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-nuclear-w...
- shrimp_emoji 10y agohttps://youtu.be/vuP6KbIsNK4?t=47 https://youtu.be/vuP6KbIsNK4?t=47
- ekianjo 10y agodo your smoldering bones care about whoever wins ?
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- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> a large number of high-ranking US staff think that nuclear war is winnable The article [1] cites two retired generals as its examples of "senior military officers" who "might be eager to get things started in the belief that a war with Russia could actually be winnable". [1] http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-nuclear-war-becoming-thinkable/ http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-nuclear-w...
- fallingfrog 10y agoThere's a reason the last official declaration of war by the us was ww2- and why the great powers never make hard and fast alliances with smaller states, or aid them too openly. And the reason is to avoid world war 3. Relations between countries are always in a big muddy middle ground between peace and war because they have to be.
- dba7dba 10y agoI truly believe the reason we have not had WW3 is because of nukes. It is one small frignge benefit.
- lurker456 10y agoIt's the reason we have not yet had WW3. The jury is out on whether that is a good thing. Perhaps we'll find one day that several smaller conflicts (as horrifying as a WW without nukes would be) would have been preferable to one larger civilization-ending one.
- BrandonMarc 10y agoSeveral smaller conflicts ... yep, sounds like the last 70 years of history since WWII. In a sense, we're in the middle of finding out. I agree the jury's out, but it's probably preferable to WWIII, or even a limited nuclear exchange.
- SubiculumCode 10y agoperhaps we live in a multiverse, and only the surviver you-s still exist because their universes have still avoided WWIII... ;-)
- tomjakubowski 10y ago> the great powers never make hard and fast alliances with smaller states, or aid them too openly. Really? US-Israel? US-Saudi? Russia-Syria? All examples of basically untouchable alliances with smaller states and blatant, public military aid. If I were better educated/informed I'm sure I could come up with more.
- cookiecaper 10y agoThe desire for positive relations with Russia is one of the reasons that Trump was elected. I'm not sure I'd characterize our government's behavior as "teasing Russia". The media is a different story.