Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 2:16 pmRidiculous. One does not placate dictators. But then, one also doesn't push them into a war, or corner them by declaring that you're aiming to kill them if they lose. So there are a lot of things one does not do...and yet, some of them have been done.Atla wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 2:14 pmYou should give your firstborn or at least some of your organs to Putin, it's always important to placate the Russians.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 11:08 pm The Ukraine War is a horrible war. It's also an arranged war. The American government announced it intended to have Ukraine apply to enter NATO, which it soon did, knowing full well that this would provoke Putin into action. They said they knew that at least a dozen years before they did it; and ten years ago, Nigel Farage warned the EU outright, that they simply had to stop poking Putin in Ukraine.
They did it anyway.
The American government has also been clear that they want this war to continue until "regime change." This will not happen. So they're talking about a perpetual overseas war, that is guaranteed to end in failure, as well. Ukrainians will continue to be immolated. Ukraine will be lost to Russia. But the rich will get much richer as a result. The taxes from ordinary Americans will fill their pockets.
Why did they start it? Because war is their tax-grab money laundry. They want it producing for them, set on "high," for as long as they can make it go. And they don't care about Ukraine. If they did, they would be suing for terms, at the very least. But better, they never would have provoked the war.
"Solidarity with Ukraine," is a phrase that in their mouths means, "Pay to keep the war going." To be in genine solidarity with Ukraine, one should be looking at stopping the war, and NATO should not be interfering in volitile countries on Russia's border.
Comment: With nukes, Ukraine would certainly have been a strong NATO member. Without nukes, it was ripe for invasion from the Motherland by an ambitious tyrant (Putin).https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/ ... ar-Weapons
At the time of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, including an estimated 1,900 strategic warheads, 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and 44 strategic bombers. By 1996, Ukraine had returned all of its nuclear warheads to Russia in exchange for economic aid and security assurances, and in December 1994, Ukraine became a non-nuclear weapon state-party to the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). The last strategic nuclear delivery vehicle in Ukraine was eliminated in 2001 under the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). It took years of political maneuvering and diplomatic work, starting with the Lisbon Protocol in 1992, to remove the weapons and nuclear infrastructure from Ukraine.
The nuke deal was pretty good for Russia.