Ukraine’s President Is in over His Head

Re:Ukraine’s President Is in over His Head by vegai_ on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @03:34AM (#30763537)

There's a good point hidden in there, in the Yoda sense. Do or do not; there is no try. I.e. if you wanna join NATO, a lot more energy should be put into joining NATO and far less into talking about joining NATO.

But perhaps in real, non-armchair politics, you cannot have one without the other.

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Re:Ukraine’s President Is in over His Head by oxff on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @05:03AM (#30764041)

I try to observe things from "30 thousand feet", the current climate in Western countries is hysterical, emotional and it clouds a lot of things. Mostly try to keep it to Thomas Schelling's teachings when analyzing a given situation (behavior & deterrence being the important keywords).

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Re:Ukraine’s President Is in over His Head by vegai_ on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @05:44AM (#30764271)

> the current climate in Western countries is hysterical, emotional and it clouds a lot of things.

Sure, but in contrast, the earlier climate was complacent and submissive to all the evil things Putin did during his reign. We might be in the other end of the spectrum right now, but the other end wasn't a good position either.

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