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Starting to feel like this is going to spiral into something horrific.
by argella 5y ago
Starting to feel like this is going to spiral into something horrific.
- heyitsguay 5y agoNo guarantees yet that it won't, but this article isn't about any escalation. This is just details about providing US forces for the NATO response force, in NATO countries around Ukraine.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoGiven the circumstances, this is the definition of escalation. Obviously they will have Putin fire all first shots. If there’s anything NATO is best at, it’s evading responsibility.
- QuarterReptile 5y agoWould you care to explain?
- ilove196884 5y agoOf course he cannot explain. A two month old account only talking about the said conflict . You know what that means.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoI’m not sure what you want explained, but you’ll probably find it in this very straightforward talk by John Mearsheimer on this very conflict. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nbj1AR_aAcE https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nbj1AR_aAcE
- jacquesm 5y agoThey asked you to explain your comment, not to dump some 'do your own homework' video.
- empressplay 5y agoThis is just shoring things up so Putin doesn't get any ideas of marching further west.
- torstenvl 5y agoSomething horrific is already happening. An ethnofascist dictatorship has invaded a liberal democracy. End of. The only thing more horrific will be if the world lets them get away with it with impunity.
- rayiner 5y ago“Ethnofascist dictatorship” and “liberal democracy”! This is more like if Pakistan invaded Bangladesh to get it back. Wars where very similar people who speak slightly different languages fight over whether they should be two countries or one country are a dime a dozen. One country being a democracy for all of five minutes doesn’t change that math.
- torstenvl 5y agoIronic, from an English-speaking American, and a lawyer at that. I would think someone familiar with our founding would recognize that, yes, a free people has a right not to be subjugated to a major power just because they speak a similar language. Also, "get it back"? Kievan Rus predates Muscovite Rus by over half a millenium. If you would like a beginner's primer on the history of ethnic and cultural ties and conflicts involved, I recommend Suzanne Massie's Land of the Firebird.
- rayiner 5y agoI’m from Bangladesh. While I believe our independence war was absolutely a good thing, it absolutely wasn’t the west’s business. “Everybody who wants one gets their own country” isn’t a workable approach. (Of course the US did intervene in the Bangladesh-Pakistan war, on the wrong side: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/us-forces-had-orders-to-target-indian-army-in-1971/articleshow/10625404.cms https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/us-forces-had-orde.... But even if it had supported Bangladesh, at the end of the day it wasn’t any of its business or risking the life of American soldiers.)
- jacquesm 5y ago
- walrus01 5y agoThis is either going to end with a successful Russian takeover in permanent occupation of ukraine, or Putin will end up like Ceacescu or Mussolini.
- jacquesm 5y agoThere are many other possible outcomes.
- jacquesm 5y agoDepending on where you live it can already be horrific.
- ayngg 5y agoIf everyone involved oversaw the escalation to where it is now, they certainly have it in them to escalate it much further.