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Being Indian, I'm part of quite a few circles where I've seen exactly this sentiment: helping Ukraine fight Russia is just prolonging Ukrainian misery because R
by shrikant 5y ago
Being Indian, I'm part of quite a few circles where I've seen exactly this sentiment: helping Ukraine fight Russia is just prolonging Ukrainian misery because Russia is just going to go full scorched-earth if a quick annexation doesn't work out.
But what's the alternative? Just allow any large nation annex sovereign territory because the target is too weak to resist on its own? So is the suggestion that Ukraine should have just quickly analysed the relative strengths, and surrendered immediately?
This will only embolden Russia (and China, eventually) to go for land grabs all over the place without any fear of retaliation.
- mjburgess 5y agoChina going on land grabs is in the near future, it's a structural necessity. At best, this delays it only a few years. There is no good outcome here, there are only terrible and bad. The largest threat in the world today is China -- it's rise to superpower is going to be a larger catastrophe than this one. Russia just wants NATO out of its backyard, that's a cheap price for Russian allegiance on China. It would've been in the wests interests to give them it; letting Ukrainians live. Russia will take it anyway, and now, the price will be much higher for everyone. China will exploit this to the full, and the west has only won here a minor strategic battle.
- shrikant 5y agoI agree with everything you've said in this reply, and yet it feels a bitter pill to swallow that the target of an invasion should just shut up and put up.