Reply With QuoteAs in all things, there is a paradox, and the paradox is that the yanks and us do not do enough. We should be proud that Britain, the Tories were the first on two occasions to tell the reds to fk off.
At the start, and in giving tanks. The rest, especially the frogs were afraid of Putin, his bombs and death squads, Johnson ably demonstrated our attitude by flicking the bird recently, and Putin threatened to kill him.
Research has shown that if you are attacked in the street, not to retaliate in kind, aggressively and with violence, is far worse than doing nothing.
The end result,no pun intended is far worse for passivity.
This applies to Russia and any aggressor, on an international scale.
If it was me, id have given the Ukraine tanks a planes from the start , to expect them to fight with a hand behind their back is insane. And to attack Russia itself, an invader, an illegal invader, cannot do that and not expect it back.
And enough hard weapons to win, its seriously in all our interests to win it. As for Putin threatening nuclear war, id say ok, Russia will get theirs, and our forces will take out your family and you.
Including his generals families. Like Trump would of, you dont mess with the likes of him. The west cannot lose this war. So if you agree with that, why dont we prosecute its winning now?
I would give Putin a month to get his forces out of the Ukraine, including crimea. and start building up a force capable of kicking the Russians out immediately, on the Romanian and Polish border.
Then watch that count crumble, it will be the end of Russia as we know it now, and he wont want that. And as for the chinese, id let it be known we had a gun to their head if they step out of line if a conflict ensued.
You fear that things will get out of hand, and that passivity is needed. No, that will guarantee war with the west, the Russians wont stop in the Ukraine.
We need to get into Russias face, with a gun pointing at its head.
Its how the world works.
