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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by ripvanwinkle on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:36AM (#30451324)
I'd say in this case everyone has nuclear weapons i.e. thug and bystanders with abundant second strike capabilities and also a healthy desire to live. With that level of mutually assured destruction, conflict if any would almost certainly stay conventional.

In fact if NATO had moved in about 50 to 100K troops at the invitation of Ukraine sometime over the past 3 months, its really unlikely that Putin would have upped the ante.

If anything the multiyear patience and planning on his part suggests he absolutely wants to win and wont take a chance if he thinks he might lose or draw

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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by nyokodo on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:19AM (#30451653)
> In fact if NATO had moved in about 50 to 100K troops at the invitation of Ukraine sometime over the past 3 months,

Meanwhile Russia being right on the border quickly invades Ukraine before the NATO troops can arrive and now we have NATO troops entering a war zone or pulling back and looking even weaker. Also, this sounds eerily like the start of WWI although then it was Russia mobilizing and Germany then decided to move quickly into Belgium and North into Russia.

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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by kqr on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:53AM (#30451453)
> With that level of mutually assured destruction, conflict if any would almost certainly stay conventional.

It's useful to remember that "almost certainly" is a synonym for "not necessarily".

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Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack by 8ytecoder on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:48AM (#30451417)
I don’t know. Mr P would have made that the excuse to invade. In war perception and public sentiment is very important too. Biden would easily lose popular support in this hypothetical scenario. As is there doesn’t seem to be much support from the right at the moment.
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