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If NATO/etc had abandoned Ukraine, and Russia had successfully taken it over - and maybe Belarus and Moldova next - then they might have been tempted to try att
by skissane 4y ago
If NATO/etc had abandoned Ukraine, and Russia had successfully taken it over - and maybe Belarus and Moldova next - then they might have been tempted to try attacking a peripheral NATO member to test if NATO really means what it says (whether or not they would have succeeded). NATO supported Ukraine to prevent that real threat of Russian military aggression against NATO.
- mysecretaccount 4y agoI do not necessarily think the alternate history you propose is implausible, but am not sure what your point is. We do not live in a timeline where that happened. My original comment was (quite clearly) referring to the reality in which Russia is stuck in an unwinnable war in Ukraine, not a hypothetical from eight months ago.
- skissane 4y agoIt was NATO’s fear of Russian military aggression which prevented that timeline from occurring. Why stop the fear now though? Sure, in the short-term, it is rather unlikely; but if they stop fearing it, that may cause it to (in the medium-to-long term) become more plausible again.
- mysecretaccount 4y agoI never said that NATO should or should not take any course of action. You are tilting at windmills here my friend.