Russia and Ukraine

[Irreligious Atheist]

Cool story.  So what’s step 2?  The Russo Ukrainian war started in 2014.  Western aid has been a thing for a couple of months.  That stops.  Then what?

Let nature take its' course I suppose and let them settle it how they choose to settle it.

And yes, I'm sure that if the US government had a magic wand, they would magic away the Muslim internment camps in China and they would make China more like the US and Europe. So what? That's really irrelevant, because no such magic wand exists. The US is glad to continue selling Saudi Arabia weapons knowing about the Saudi's genocide in Yemen and beheading of protestors and other so called trouble makers. Business trumps all. If an American criminal is selling illegal weapons to a white nationalist terrorist group in the US and he knows they plan on using them in a terrorist attack, but chooses to look away and sell the weapons to them anyways because the seller needs to feed his family and keep a roof over their head and maintain his wife's rich lifestyle, does it really matter if on the stand he says he would have preferred that the group did not commit a terrorist attack with the guns? He still sold them the weapons knowing the white nationalist group was going to do the terrorist attack, so he is complicit. I was never claiming that the US should do anything about the Chinese internment camps. I was just pointing out to Tomato that letting bad guys get away with bad things is kind of just how the world works much of the time, and the dictator talking point is dependent on whether that dictator is an ally with the US or not. Our dictators that we ally with and benefit off of are AOK. The other guys, not so much.