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I'm a US military veteran and nobody is paying me to speak one way or another about any of this. I just see the minimization and avoidance of war as preferrabl
by mikece 1y ago
I'm a US military veteran and nobody is paying me to speak one way or another about any of this. I just see the minimization and avoidance of war as preferrable to bullets flying and people dying. Yes, that is happening now in a limited context (Ukraine and Russia) but and I hope that comes to an end before it spills over to a full and formal NATO vs. Russia (and China?) engagement.
- mopsi 1y agoOne-sided avoidance of war can be counterproductive and make everything worse. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Ukraine since 2022 because the response to the initial invasion in 2014 focused too much on avoiding confrontation, which was taken as a sign of weakness to exploit. Up until the day of the invasion in February 2022, something as simple as deploying US airborne forces to Kyiv for exercises could have prevented the war. Biden chose to avoid confrontation, and here we are now, in the fourth year of the war.
- fifilura 1y agoWhat we are handling now is the snowball started by GWB with the Iraq invasion. He basically said that it is fine for superpowers to invade countries with non preferable leaders. (Unless they have nuclear weapons) The difference in sentiment is basically whether the snowball is too big to stop, or if this is our last chance to stop it.