The longer the Russia will be dragged into this war, the deeper Putinisms' grave will be, and the less is the chance of Russia ever growing big enough to threaten Europe.
I am totally for dragging Russia into a bloody war.
What? Even in the hellish flamewar of this thread, that stands out as beyond the pale. I appreciate your substantive comments but you can't keep breaking the site guidelines like this. Please stop it so we don't have to ban you again. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892864.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887036.
Putin is not eternal. He's old man. He'll die soon. He'll likely give up presidency earlier. If Putin is all you hate about Russia, you just have to wait a little bit.
> I am totally for dragging Russia into a bloody war.
Uhm, how about wishing for peace since Russia is allready big enought to threaten Europe?
Of course it is, I can do the math. And exactly because of that Europe should strive to bleed off Russia's reserves, and firepower while it still can.
If Europe lets Russia's massive armour advantage to continue, no amount of airpower, nukes, "smart bombs," or whatever else wunderwaffe will save them when 3-5 tank armies will pour through Fulda gap.
Ukraine used to be pretty much a puppet state of Russia until 2014. When pro-western parties cam to power Putin decided to just peel off what he can (Crimea) since they are are gonna loose the rest anyway and start permanent border conflict in Donbas so that the Ukraine would never be accepted into NATO.