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The US needs to escalate to de-escalate.
by optimalsolver 4y ago
The US needs to escalate to de-escalate.
- meepmorp 4y agoiirc, they can mount sidewinders on the reaper; I bet splashing a flanker or two would change Russia's attitude a bit.
- rbanffy 4y agoThat's how you escalate a conflict into an all-out war. Nobody, not even the dickheads who did this, want that. I hope they spend the rest of the year flying their desks and doing paperwork.
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoI'm not convinced Russia doesn't want escalation. The leadership seems suicidally insane - like an old guy who starts a bar fight because he wants to prove he's still one of the Big Dogs, even though he hasn't been sober for decades and can barely stand. It's plain old post-imperial narcissism, Which is not an emotional state known for its rationality and foresight.
- mrguyorama 4y agoRussia's playbook is to threaten escalation to "de-escalate". Putin does not want to actually bring NATO into the fight because then the ONLY option he has is nuclear annihilation. Right now he thinks he can still get Western people to lose support for Ukraine eventually and grind them down into a fine paste. That's why he keeps making nuclear threats on TV, because they are directed at Western citizens to try and scare them into giving up. You can be sure that if Putin ACTUALLY wants to backstop a red line with actual nuclear threats, we won't hear about that.
- meepmorp 4y agoI was joking, but even if the US shot down a couple Russian planes, it doubt it would lead to any more direct US involvement. The US isn't interested, and the Russians definitely don't want any part of that.