RE: Russia and Ukraine
May 23, 2022 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2022 at 2:07 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 23, 2022 at 1:51 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The US, nor anyone else, did anything of the sort. If it's true that Putin will go nuclear, and that Russia would actually carry out that order - that...too..will have been entirely elective on Russia's part.
of course any power can elect to allow its core interests to be overridden and its influences curtailed. Russia did not choose to so elect.
Neither did the US, nor had ever done the US, although if the US at any expected its course of action since 2001 would not arrive at the present situation in Ukraine, then the US has clearly believes russia is a nation made of less domineering stuff than ourself and would so elect, hence the conflict now.