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I agree, it's hard to tell if it was intentional. However, it might have been designed to be that way, as a test of the resolve of the West (US, really). It's
by e40 4y ago
I agree, it's hard to tell if it was intentional. However, it might have been designed to be that way, as a test of the resolve of the West (US, really). It's just impossible to tell, which means we have to respond in a way that will stop Putin from pushing into Poland and other places, yet not pushing too hard on him that WW3 starts.
- Gumberclaus 4y agoHaven't we already been doing this? Here's a better idea - how about the US and everyone else GTFO of Ukraine and stop meddling in Eastern Europe? Biden and Kerry and the US have been doing it since the fall of the Berlin Wall and now we risk WWIII because these greedy politicians can't get enough kick backs from the US military industrial complex.
- lamontcg 4y agoSo far the way the war is going I don't think we desperately need to respond to these missiles, and it may be a gambit to try to draw NATO more directly into the war for Russian domestic political consumption. Putin is losing right now, just continue to let him keep losing. That is going to be the course of action right now which is most damaging to him.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoRussia is losing, but they aren't losing quickly. We'd likely see another 100,000 or more Ukrainian lives lost if we continue the current course.
- lamontcg 4y agoWould you prefer several billion lives lost globally with WWIII? Unfortunately Ukrainians are going to have to do a lot of dying for us. We should definitely remember that debt in the future.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoGiving in to nuclear blackmail today increases the risk of nuclear war in the future.
- lamontcg 4y agoWe can still send HIMARS to Ukraine and support them defeating Putin, we don't have to negotiate. And there's historical precedent for this since a million or so Vietnamese died defeating us in a proxy war (and now we're friends and like buying Pho for lunch). You also sound like you're regurgitating a talking point. That one works better against arguments that we should do some kind of negotiated settlement that gives Putin territory and rewards him for launching this war.
- bryanlarsen 4y ago> That one works better against arguments that we should do some kind of negotiated settlement that gives Putin territory and rewards him for launching this war. Your original comment called for staying the course in response to an escalation by Putin. That sounds much like rewarding him to me.
- koonsolo 4y agoWar has a military and humanitarian side. On the humanitarian side, I agree with you. On the military side, dragging out this war is in the best interest of NATO, because Russia is getting more exhausted by the day.