>The price to stop Putin in 2014 would've been a local war with NATO losses.
The price in 2014 was just to not overthrow the democratically elected government in Ukraine, and rewrite the Constitution to change their stance on joining NATO. What is the value in skipping past that part and pretending it doesn't matter?
Re:Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU
by nickpp on Thursday March 10, 2022 @12:51PM
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Oh you mean the government that won the elections promising to bring Ukraine into Europe, then made a full 180 into Russia's waiting arms - thus proving itself Putin's puppet and betrayer of its people? The same government Putin wants so badly to reinstate that he is willing to bomb women and children for it?!
No, Ukrainians knew why they took it down. Eastern European people are not so easily fooled, we see quite easily through Russian deception and propaganda.
Politicians lie all the time, that doesn't legitimize having a coup. You throw them out at the next election if you don't like how they ran the country. That is how democracy works.
Re:Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU
by nickpp on Thursday March 10, 2022 @05:25PM
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Invading peaceful countries, bombing innocent women and children and threatening nuclear apocalypse is how Russian "democracy" works.
Many would say the same thing about US democracy, would they not?
The price to stop Putin in 2014 would've been a local war with NATO losses. The price to stop him now is to risk walking the nuclear line. The price to stop him in another 10 years will be guaranteed nuclear war.