It’s good that they’re recognizing the threat. Putin dreams of an empire, and Ukraine is just one step on his path. If we’ve learned anything from WWII, appeasement doesn’t work. NATO countries are already being attacked by Russia through cyber attacks and destabilization efforts effected through social media. It seems only reasonable to push back.
Bad joke alert:
What can think the unthinkable?
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An ithberg
Unthinkable? It wouldn’t be the first time
Retaliating is a lot less bad an idea than meekly rolling over and letting them take whatever they want.
The only winning move is not to play
Play what? You are talking as if Russia didn’t invade a sovereign European nation.
If Ukraine wasn’t putting the resistance out does, Russian tanks would already be in Poland.
Also Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia.
I don’t know… I tried it in high school when I was bullied and it was not very effective. Though the one time I punched back one of them (quite ineffectively I must say, as I was way weaker then my counterpart) he indeed stopped bullying and we actually became almost friends in the end.
I know, it’s an anecdote (one single instance in one single life) and you cannot translate easily high school dynamics with geopolitical ones, but sometimes it’s possible to draw parallelism…
And from the voice of Lenin himself (used in a different context by him, but it works very well in this case for modern Russia): “You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw”. If you find yourself at the other end of a bayonet, you better be wearing steel than going naked.
That’s unfortunately what putin wishes my friend,he would consider it a weakness
Let’s GO!
