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Giving up everything trying to avoid a nuclear war is the surest way to get it. I know, it's counterintuitive, but if you want peace you must be willing to go t
by nickpp 5y ago
Giving up everything trying to avoid a nuclear war is the surest way to get it. I know, it's counterintuitive, but if you want peace you must be willing to go to war.
- cute_boi 5y agoThe last sentence is an oxymoron. How would there be peace if you go to war?
- llampx 5y agoCurrent war for future peace.
- cute_boi 5y agoI don't think so. Middle east war, Afghan war never brought any peace. Instead it backfired. So, I really don't like such platitudes.
- llampx 5y agoI agree in a way, but I also think that in avoiding conflict, it is possible to see yourself pushed back into a corner to where a bigger conflict becomes necessary.
- Glawen 5y agoIt is a old Roman adage "Si vis pacem, para bellum" which held true for centuries
- nickpp 5y agoI didn’t say "go to war", I said "be willing to go to war". That makes the whole difference.
- philistine 5y agoThat's some Peacemaker stuff there. "I love peace, and I'd kill any amount of men, women and children to get it."
- ghostwriter 5y ago> Giving up everything trying to avoid a nuclear war is the surest way to get it. Nobody is giving up everything, what is given up at the moment is a strip of land in East Europe that could be claimed back via diplomatic arrangements as soon as Putin is gone.
- nickpp 5y agoThe west has been giving up stuff since Putin gained power. Nothing has been claimed back yet. And he won’t be gone any time soon. He has plenty of targets after Ukraine too, for example Moldova which already has a separatist Russian mole region inside. We are watching Hitler raising, not Stalin dying here.
- darebak 5y agoDon't you feel you are a bit hyperbolic?
- nickpp 5y agoI’d ask my friend in Kiev if he feels I am being hyperbolic but for some reason he’s not answering his messages right now.
- philistine 5y agoWhat has been given to Russia is land and people. Economically, Russia has been contracting and losing its grip on the sectors it controlled. I don't hope for war over Ukraine. I hope for the end of oil purchases from Europe. Total economic sanctions.