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This is bananas. They need our help. We absolutely need to keep pushing for a no-fly zone and enforce it. This is now the world's war, and has reached far beyo
by xfitm3 5y ago
This is bananas. They need our help.
We absolutely need to keep pushing for a no-fly zone and enforce it. This is now the world's war, and has reached far beyond the politics internal to Russia and Ukraine.
- ericd 5y agoYeah no, it would be bananas to engage Russia directly. We engaged in plenty of proxy wars during the Cold War, we never went direct.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> We engaged in plenty of proxy wars during the Cold War, we never went direct. In fact, we went direct fairly regularly, but only in circumstances where we (or they, or, in a few cases both) maintained superficial (not always really plausible, as both sides would often protect the fiction to avoid escalation) deniability. That is why, for instance, radio intercepts of North Korean pilots in the Korean War showed they tended to switch from Korean to Russian a lot under stress.
- ericd 5y agoHaha interesting! I thought that we usually stopped at providing weapons, training, etc. I wonder if there’s something similar possible here.