Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends
by ledauphin on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:29AM
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this is all very true, but does not negate what i said. the American public does not want to risk nuclear war.
Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends
by mumblemumble on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:17AM
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Perhaps you wanted to use a different choice of words? "Prevent" implies a much more direct cause and effect relationship than we can reasonably infer in this case.
The US getting more directly involved in Ukraine was never a likely outcome, for reasons that have nothing to do with American public opinion. Throughout the Cold War, both the USA and the USSR made a policy of never directly engaging in conflict on the same soil, because the risk of it escalating into a nuclear war was just too great. Instead, they would fight proxy wars where at most one country was a direct combatant, and the other country merely provided material support to an ally.
We can expect the war in Ukraine to continue following the same playbook, and for the same reason. And other NATO countries will also avoid sending their own troops into Ukraine for fear of creating a slippery slope that pulls NATO's nuclear powers into the war.