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It's not wrong. Putin felt free to attack Ukraine because he wasn't scared of the consequences. You need psychopaths to make a coldly rational decision not to m
by barrkel 1y ago
It's not wrong. Putin felt free to attack Ukraine because he wasn't scared of the consequences. You need psychopaths to make a coldly rational decision not to mess with you, in international relations, and you do that by being prepared and willing to respond.
- agent_turtle 1y agoYou're making the case for why it is so dangerous for the world that one nation/company has this much power over others.
- Sammi 1y agoAbsolutely not. He's making exactly the opposite case. America behaved too weakly towards Russia and that's how they got away with starting a bloody war. All nations are only beholden to their own citizens and only cooperate with other nations out of self interest. The only periods of relative peace that the world has ever seen have been during the reign of a supreme hegemonic power.
- agent_turtle 1y agoAgain, you're not making the argument you think you are. "Russia attacked a weaker country because it is stronger. This is why we need one country to be stronger than any other country." Mutually Assured Destruction works because of the Mutually part.
- Sammi 1y agoYou're not reading what I'm saying then. Never did I mention anything about MAD. I talked about hegemony. The opposite thing. If you insist on understanding the opposite from what I write again then I must interpret it as willful.
- assword 1y ago> Putin felt free to attack Ukraine because he wasn't scared of the consequences. That doesn’t change by letting palantir build the surveillance state. Putin wasn’t scared of the consequences because he knew it would be politically suicidal the west to risk escalation to a large mainland European war that’s been mostly considered a relic.