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Who the fuck cares what Russia demands. Do you ask your neighbor to approve your friend list ? Russia thought it could force the issue, and has had its ass han
by ddalex 4y ago
Who the fuck cares what Russia demands. Do you ask your neighbor to approve your friend list ?
Russia thought it could force the issue, and has had its ass handed back to them .
- cortesoft 4y ago> Do you ask your neighbor to approve your friend list? Well, if my neighbor had nukes pointed at my house, I might at least care what they thought.
- ddalex 4y agoAnd your friends have nukes pointed at the neighbors house - perhaps the neighbour wants to mind his words lest his house be turned in a glassed skate park.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoSo your friend is willing to risk planetary destruction over a friends list dispute with your neighbor? I'd think thrice before relying on them when such stakes are on the table.
- ddalex 4y agoWell, the neighbour that doesn't like my friends broke into my house repeatedly, stole my last food a couple of times, kidnapped several household members, raped my wife and my kid; and now threatens to burn the whole city down if I don't give up my new friends that protect my house. So yes, lets' burn the city down, why should I live in hell and fear - it's better that no one lives, including the asshole neighbour.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoSo what? All that is nothing compared to the literal destruction of this planet. Better to let them walk all over you than risk destroying the world everybody lives in. I seriously doubt there is a single person in america willing to accept even the possibility of being utterly annihilated by nuclear fire over some foreign european nation. War against Vietnam or Iraq is one thing, war against Russia is on a completely different category.
- ddalex 4y ago> Better to let them walk all over you than risk destroying the world everybody lives in It's very easy to ask others to be meek, why don't you offer yourself to Russians to walk them over you? I mean, Russia would be very happy to have Alaska, perhaps you should offer it to them so they don't destroy the world. > ... doubt there is a single person in america willing to accept ... Thankfully there are several european nations with independent nuclear capability willing to stand up for Ukraine.
- matheusmoreira 4y ago> why don't you offer yourself to Russians to walk them over you? I mean, Russia would be very happy to have Alaska I'm brazilian. We don't have nuclear weapons. We barely even have a space program. If USA wanted to take the Amazon, I doubt there's anything we could do about it and I seriously doubt anyone else would intervene in our favor. > Thankfully there are several european nations with independent nuclear capability willing to stand up for Ukraine. Yeah. So are they really going to risk getting nuked out of existence over Ukraine? I suppose we'll find out.
- ddalex 4y agoHaving lived under Russian oppression during Soviet times, I can tell you that certainly I would prefer nuclear annihilation to being under the russian boot again. And I have small kids. Perhaps especially because I have small kids.
- macintux 4y agoThe question becomes what sort of world do we want for our children: one where nuclear-armed nation-states simply take what they want (and remember, it’s not just Russia and the U.S. who have nuclear weapons) because it’s better to appease them? The mere existence of nuclear weapons means that our future is in jeopardy. That bell can’t be unrung. But it doesn’t mean we have to allow the fear of that hypothetical future to prevent us from standing up to genocide.
- willturman 4y agoReasoning with someone threatening your complete destruction seems like a shaky foundation for productive negotiation.
- cortesoft 4y agoSure, but not negotiating with someone threatening your complete destruction seems like an even worse option. You can't really ignore them.