Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces

Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by bayesian_horse on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:15PM (#30459679)

The sanctions are extremely tough and not entirely painless for the US and other western countries.

Also the US has delivered weapons to Ukraine.

They don't want to engage in a war with Russia, and that decision I think is the right one for now. A couple years down the road, if the sanctions don't succeed in containing Putin's aggression, we might have a different discussion.

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by markvdb on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:53PM (#30462015)

Putin is going on seventy already. A couple years down the road, with some luck he'll be six foot under.

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by smegger001 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:33PM (#30461824)

>A couple years down the road, if the sanctions don't succeed in containing Putin's aggression, we might have a different discussion.

Yeah well we tried that back in 2014 when it was the Crimean Penensula. I think its time we have that discussion NOW.

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by bayesian_horse on Friday February 25, 2022 @06:01AM (#30465929)

Any direct confrontation with Russia may go nuclear. The NATO doctrine understandably requires a direct attack on a NATO member to run that risk.

In my opinion, Russia will not have a lot of appetite for further aggression after all those sanctions. Invading NATO members and setting off a huge, unwinnable conflict should be pretty far down the list of priorities in the next few years.

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