Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

It's easy to talk of peace when war is half an ocean away.

Indeed how Anti War is it to reward invaders with land and concessions?

These two are the crux of it.  Sure, peace is great and war is bad, someone should convince the russian administration of this.  If, however, the way we choose to convince that admin that peace is great is by offering up a chunk of someone else's country - well......looks like war aint so bad after all, especially if you can use war to plead for a "peace" where you swallow your neighbors.

The people who think of the us as the great satan should really think long and hard about how the us could use such a "peace" proccess..itself.  A question was asked earlier whether or not latin america was part of the western world.  Not generally, but it sure as hell could be.....all we'd need to do was invade and then these people would tell latin america that they should allow us to annex their territory.  For peace.  Da?

I can already hear the batshit retort "but isn't that exactly what the us did in latin america and in the pacific during our imperial period!?!!!"-  Sure was...and was that a bad thing...or...?.  Peace for me by death to thee, I guess.

- This also not such a bright phase of US history (Nor were the War in Iraq of Afghanistan if you ask me). But this was the Cold war. That was the time during which the world was nothing less than a chessboard between capitalism and communism.
 
So what I want to ask is “What is the chessboard today?”. If it’s authoritarianism vs. Freedom most people will rather join the second camp. So it’s existential in a way for countries like China to make something good out of this conflict. But still I think that at least China is slowly understanding that there is no victory for them in this war.