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originally posted by: MidnightWatcher
originally posted by: 19Bones79
a reply to: F2d5thCavv2
If that's the case then the question arises why is he escalating?
From here he can only back down (and most likely be retired) or take it all the way.
What else is there?
Good question.
putin is no longer behaving like he is sane.
I can think of no other answer to your question.
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
What i'm hearing is there's protests in at least 35 cities and over 1,000 have been arrested so far.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: Kenzo
Mobilizing a few million troops is fairly easy but supplying them with guns, ammo and food is much harder especially with Russia's history with supplies.
originally posted by: JAY1980
Anyone out there screaming "To the last Ukrainian!" is partially to blame for this escalation. Russia's invasion wasn't the answer but neither is sending billions in lethal aid to Ukraine who has been using that aid for years now to kill civilians in the Donbas region.
I just wish you all could see you are being used as pawns to stoke the flames of war... You don't have to support Russia, but you can't support Ukraine...
Alexander Haig: We are trying to de-escalise a war.
Margaret Thatcher: So am I. But you do not do it by appeasement. You increase its chances. You see this table? This was where Neville Chamberlain sat in 1938 when he spoke on the wireless about the Czechs as "far away people about whom we know nothing and with whom we have so little in common". Munich! Appeasement! A world war followed because of that irresponsible, woolly-minded, indecisive, slip-shod attitude and the deaths of 45 million people.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: modified device
Guess you would have bugged out when Hitler tried his thing, too?
. So you're rooting for a third world war are you? You want the United States to get involved in this so badly that hey just to prove you're right You're right Vladimir Putin was Hitler after all Man he even had a secret stash of lil Hitler mustaches and toupe hidden away in his closet when we finally took Moscow we found it.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: modified device
That thought process / mindset was used at Munich and it costs 45 + million lives.
Alexander Haig: We are trying to de-escalise a war.
Margaret Thatcher: So am I. But you do not do it by appeasement. You increase its chances. You see this table? This was where Neville Chamberlain sat in 1938 when he spoke on the wireless about the Czechs as "far away people about whom we know nothing and with whom we have so little in common". Munich! Appeasement! A world war followed because of that irresponsible, woolly-minded, indecisive, slip-shod attitude and the deaths of 45 million people.