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Well maybe some do not but I do realize that fact. Nuclear brinkmanship is a dangerous game. Still no one during the Cold War ended up pushing that button.
I’m not sure what choice we have when evil dictators possess nuclear weapons. I suppose we could knuckle under every time he threatens us. That would eventually make him our dictator too. We have to confront and contain him. We have no choice
Dead on Daniel. We do not have any other choice.
We've been facing the fear of MAD ever since 1945 and the Trinity test. We knew that this confrontation would come sooner or later. We had a close brush during the Cuban Missile Crisis and it looks likely that the threat will be even higher in this situation.
The Federation of Atomic Scientists has their doomsday clock at 100 seconds to midnight - the highest ever since they started. And that assessment was before the current crisis in Eastern Europe.
Personally, I'd rather see this world become a smoking radioactive ruin than for myself and my children and their future generations to live as frightened slaves under the yoke of a megalomaniac like Putin or Xi or one of their stooges here in the US.
I dunno. Looks like the rest of the world is cooperating with Biden and most of his stated goals. And the countries that aren't are staying out of the fray.
Of course I certainly wouldn't expect for you and your right wing pals to acknowledge that reality.
Yeah because the rest of the world would have been pro invasion of Ukraine if Trump was president instead.
No one has respect for Biden and the U.S. now. They see a demented Biden and a weak U.S. that is more worried about flying LGBTQ rainbow flags in their embassies and Green New Deals than standing up to the Taliban or tyrants like Putin or Xi.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't both Estonia and Latvia in NATO, I think they joined way back in 2004 and I'm almost certain they probably, definitely, maybe share a land border with Russia!
Then you have Lithuania and Poland, also in NATO and share a land border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.
If Putin didn't want his neighbors to join NATO, why didn't he invade Estonia and Latvia back in 2004?
I don't know why he has such a grip on Ukraine like a kite on his prey. He has a navy in Crimea and an outlet to the Black Sea. It is clear to me why he wanted it so much. But what is there in Luhansk and Donetsk is unclear to me. Maybe there are some resources, like gas or oil.
I don't know why he has such a grip on Ukraine like a kite on his prey. He has a navy in Crimea and an outlet to the Black Sea. It is clear to me why he wanted it so much. But what is there in Luhansk and Donetsk is unclear to me. Maybe there are some resources, like gas or oil.
I dunno. Looks like the rest of the world is cooperating with Biden and most of his stated goals. And the countries that aren't are staying out of the fray.
Of course I certainly wouldn't expect for you and your right wing pals to acknowledge that reality.
To be fair, Russia has communist Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela's support.
I don't think that's what he wants. He just wants to show his power. He wants to be feared and respected. But I wouldn't want to be feared. I would like to be loved.
I don't think that's what he wants. He just wants to show his power. He wants to be feared and respected. But I wouldn't want to be feared. I would like to be loved.
Putin has some BIG shoes to fill, considering Russias past leaders! (being 'loved' is probably not a priority to Putin)
It's the age old MAD scenario we've feared since the Trinity test way back in 1945.
We have to call his bluff. If he lobs a nuke - so be it. If the modern world is destroyed in a nuclear war - so be it.
Maybe it's easier for me to say this since I'm an old geezer and I have had my time in the sun.
We cannot idly sit back and watch a megalomaniac like Putin put us under the boot. Even if the worst comes to pass. What sort of world would it be for our children and their future generations if we allow that to happen?
What sort of world would it be for our children and their future generations it was destroyed by a full-scale nuclear war?
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