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To be clear, are you equating WW2 Japan to Ukraine here? Don't you see some major differences between the role of the two in their respective wars?

• kelipso 3y ago
  You are now moving the discussion from practicality to idealism. Doesn't really matter what ideals they have when they have to consider getting destroyed or not.
  • The_Colonel 3y ago
    The side with no idealism is bound to lose, because for individuals it's better to run than to fight. Tragedy of the commons. But what you're doing is a category error. It's a completely different thing to ask your enemy to surrender from asking your ally (in a loose sense) to surrender.
  • Wytwwww 3y ago
    Japan was facing a superpower with unlimited resources. Ukraine is facing a second-rate region power which has nothing going for them besides nukes and a large pool of servile and suicidal recruits (so a bit like Japan in that sense). Not exactly equivalent situations?
    • ecoquant 3y ago
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