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[–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Hmm, maybe he could wedge 30 seconds in there and talk about deescalating from nuclear war while he's doing the important work of springing a basketball star from jail.

[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

talk about deescalating from nuclear war

Do you mean - by helping the dictator carve up Europe? How should he deescalate? Arming Ukraine to win this war is the best guarantor of future peace in my view. But I'd love to hear how you imagine that conversation to go

[–]makesyoudownvote 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

How would arming Ukraine help anything?

Arming Ukraine escalates the conflict and makes it more likely that Putin uses nukes. Putin is DEFINITELY the type of person to fire a nuke if he isn't getting his way.

The moment he uses a nuke one of two things happens.

  1. U.S. retaliates in kind and launches a nuke at Russia. Russia will retaliate and send a nuke back at the US. US retaliates by sending all nukes at Russia, Russia retaliates by sending all nukes at US and NATO allies. World ends.

  2. U.S. does not retaliate. Putin/Russia have now successfully called the U.S. bluff and nuclear deterrent is not a thing anymore. Nukes start getting used, and once again you have a likely end of the world. Best outcome is either we let Russia win at this point and take whatever they want from the entire world, or eventually U.S. and Russia are so destroyed that all nuclear weapons are banned, but we've now still irradiated a significant part of the planet.

[–]Site_rly_sux 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How would arming Ukraine help anything?

Because they're going to win, and it's imperative that Putin doesn't.

He's not going to use a nuke. If he was going to, it would have happened the day he signed annexation. Every day that passes, the less likely he'll do it.

And he can't be allowed to use nuclear terrorism to steal regions. That's not how the free world operates. Not going to happen