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Huge swathes of the country do not want to be involved in Ukraine. Positioning this as “sucking up to Putin” seems intentionally inflammatory.
by nostrebored 2y ago
Huge swathes of the country do not want to be involved in Ukraine. Positioning this as “sucking up to Putin” seems intentionally inflammatory.
- stickfigure 2y agoHuge swaths of the country didn't want to be involved in WW1 and WW2 either. Look how well that worked out.
- nostrebored 2y agoI’m not sure that I follow. I could say the same about Vietnam and Afghanistan. The situation in both world wars was materially different.
- stickfigure 2y agoYou could ask "Is Putin more like Hitler or is Putin more like Ho Chi Minh?" Putin does not try to hide the fact that he wants to restore the Russian empire and reconquer the former soviet bloc - a group of peoples who want nothing to do with him. Ho Chi Minh wanted an independent Vietnam, got it, and never really expanded from there. We either help the Ukranians stop Putin now or we fight a much bigger fight later. Hitler could have easily been stopped at the Rhineland, or at Czechoslovakia. But instead we got "Peace for our time".