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I disagree. There can and should be a Nato intervention. Maybe Ww3 is what follows next but that doesnt mean it will be a nuclear desaster. If we can send stingers we can send jets. If we can send jets we can send pilots. Step be step we can increase pressure. Putin is a strategic player, he is cold blooded not red headed.

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> If we can send stingers we can send jets.

I am sure the Kremlin has a working back channel to the Pentagon these days.

https://twitter.com/PentagonPresSec/status/15013364457299681...

Threats were made, I am sure.

I’d say the EU intervened. I may be wrong but my mindset refuses to succumb to fear and putins psychological pressure.

Lets admit we have no clue what is going on behind the scene.

You could however also be wrong and the reason for triggering the start of the end of the species. So maybe dont?

Appeasement politics during the nazi aera has brought suffering beyond words. I feel we ow to the victims of that time to never let this happen again- no matter what.

Putin is absolutely capable of tactical nuking military sites and airbases within Ukraine. He's probably willing to do that to bordering NATO countries if planes are flying out of them and Putin's back is against the wall. He'll take that next step that you can't fathom in order to stop you, since he figures you'll back down and won't escalate. Then, if we launch try to take out his nuclear capacity then he must launch all his missiles, and you've got WWIII and the end of the species more or less.

If you play the tit-for-tat ratcheting up escalation game with Putin then all of humanity is going to lose that one.

Right now its somewhat restrained since his generals won't want to launch nukes at NATO over the aid that has been given so far. When you cross a certain line so that Putin can argue that NATO bases in Europe are the proverbial dagger pointed at the heart of Russia and they must go so that Russia doesn't fall, then its much more likely that you've handed him the rationale for a tactical nuclear strike that his generals will follow.

I agree that he is not Saddam Hussain and we should not try to hunt him. But as of right now his back is not against the wall at all.

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