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This comment comes from a misguided position of believing USA are in the position to allow or disallow. As this article shows, ‘disallow’ is not as straight for
by jonplackett 2y ago
This comment comes from a misguided position of believing USA are in the position to allow or disallow. As this article shows, ‘disallow’ is not as straight forward as it seems.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoIt's not solely up to the USA. The larger question remains, how does the world prevent nuclear states from simply taking over their neighbors?
- dukeyukey 2y agoBy giving nuclear states a vested interest in maintaining the world order as it is. We've mostly managed to do that so far, even if with Ukraine and potentially Taiwan it's looking a bit iffy.
- llamaimperative 2y agoYeah, and obviously so long as that continues then the US won't go to war... the conversation is about what happens if China invades Taiwan.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoIt seems like the current system is working, since it hasn't really happened? Otherwise wouldn't Russia have just walked into Ukraine with a nuke saying "we're the boss now or eveyone is dead"?
- ceejayoz 2y agoRussia has consistently used nuclear blackmail in Ukraine. The West has responded with a very slow, incremental ramping up of aid to avoid triggering it. If Russia didn't have nukes, the situation in Ukraine would look very different.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoWhy is Russia fighting an actual war with half a million casualties if nuclear blackmail works?
- ceejayoz 2y agoNuclear blackmail is what stops NATO from ending the war overnight tomorrow with a massive air assault on Russian troops in Ukraine. Instead, we ship arms over the border and wring our hands with every small ratcheting up of aid calibrated to hopefully not trigger it. Blackmail doesn't have to be perfect to be functional. The West has correctly assessed "they're not going to nuke us over x" so far, but it remains a consideration.
- lostlogin 2y agoA less charitable view of the strategy is that the west is letting Ukraine bleed out defending itself with too little support to win, and too much to lose.
- petre 2y agoThe current war situation is quite convenient for the US. They watch the Russians screw themselves up in Ukraine while mostly supplying it with aging weapons that were mostly sitting around close to being decomissioned. O handy way to get rid of old inventory and also to push Eastern European NATO members to update their stuff: donate your USSR-made scrap to Ukraine and we'll give/sell you more modern NATO compatible equivalents. Putin was dumb enough to start a war and enable this. And this time the US reacted with more than just sanctions.
- aguaviva 2y agoThings may very well work out that way for the arms industry. But it's not just like US policy in Ukraine is just a big sham to get these countries to buy modern weapon systems, if that's what you're insinuating.
- llamaimperative 2y agoWho is under the impression that the USA allowing/disallowing is straightforward? Do you think it's some secret that war is costly?
- jonplackett 2y agosadly for some people yeah