Unfortunately, it seems that the "wild west" behavior of the USA in South America, in the wake of the brutal Spanish conquest long ago, made some enemies (that have oil) that are not easy to talk to now.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42527868-oil-power-and-w...
This is Biden too. Literally can unilaterally start a nuclear war.
So what? What does that have to do with anything?
Biden has never threatened nuclear war and has nothing to gain from it. Putin has threatened it repeatedly in the last few weeks.
Biden is more powerful than Putin, Stalin, or Hitler, but he is not as dangerous.
Because my reply was to:
>much more powerful and dangerous than Stalin or Hitler because
Note the "because", the exact same argument stands for Biden, but we wouldn't argue he's more powerful and dangerous than Stalin or Hitler. I was pointing out the weakness in the "because".
(I think there are other people in the loop in the case of the US president though? Personally I've always been most worried about the Royal Navy's submarine captains, who really do have the ability to launch unilaterally in a very direct way)
Biden, however, has not threatened to use them. Nor does he rule over his subordinates on pain of extrajudicial murder, so there's a few checks and balances there. Alas the same cannot be said for Putin.
The vast majority of the world is celebrating the self-evident decline of US-centric unipolarity. But those of us who live here have some hard years ahead.
The Russians are probably the least likely to want liberating from what I've seen of all Europeans, but I do think a plurality of Russians would want this. Which justifies it. That said, without this invasion of Ukraine and the danger I feel it presents to my homeland (the US), I wouldn't even be bringing this up. The Russian Federation would be on their own. It's just that the leadership over there is now a danger to everyone else.
Even still - I don't see a problem with countries rescuing other countries from despotism, in principle. I eagerly include my own country in this - if a Putin-like figure arose and I was not permitted to speak out or face death, it would comfort me to know that help was coming. The terror of an oppressive regime is its inescapability.
I am a bit confused. It seems like Putin was not emboldened when Trump was president. Why do you think his second term would have been different?
Putin attacked Georgia when Bush was president. Putin attacked Ukraine when Obama was president. Putin attack Ukraine when Biden was president.
The only US president in the last 20 years that was in power when Putin didn't attack a neighboring country was Trump.
> Install anyone else that's not insane, say Navalny.
Well, we definitely couldn't install anyone. We'd have to administrate an open election.
> I read they have 50% of their total combat brigades in Ukraine now.
This is a pretty antiquated assessment of military power. Boots on the ground show only that Russia wants to take Ukraine rather than completely destroy it. They can level the entire country with tactical nukes if they want.
> Installing a leader that is open to integrating with the west, along with India, we could encircle China and force them into peaceful deescalation.
I think it's more likely that we'd make China very dangerous and hostile, and we'd also re-open the world to the possibility of foreign regime change.
If we can decapitate Russia, why couldn't someone say, "Hey, this Biden guy stole the election, we should murder him for the good of the American people!"
Biden didn't steal the election, but I think you see where I'm going with it.