Russia demanded a neutral (not NATO-affiliated) Ukraine as one of their peace conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_border_fortificat...
And in Ukraine we see that this strategy does not work when your neighbor is murderous.
Putin is obsessed with reunification and anything that doesn't give him that, he isn't interested in. He'd roll tanks right up to the Berlin wall if he thought he could.
Russia thought it could force the issue, and has had its ass handed back to them .
Well, if my neighbor had nukes pointed at my house, I might at least care what they thought.
So yes, lets' burn the city down, why should I live in hell and fear - it's better that no one lives, including the asshole neighbour.
It's very easy to ask others to be meek, why don't you offer yourself to Russians to walk them over you? I mean, Russia would be very happy to have Alaska, perhaps you should offer it to them so they don't destroy the world.
> ... doubt there is a single person in america willing to accept ...
Thankfully there are several european nations with independent nuclear capability willing to stand up for Ukraine.
I'm brazilian. We don't have nuclear weapons. We barely even have a space program. If USA wanted to take the Amazon, I doubt there's anything we could do about it and I seriously doubt anyone else would intervene in our favor.
> Thankfully there are several european nations with independent nuclear capability willing to stand up for Ukraine.
Yeah. So are they really going to risk getting nuked out of existence over Ukraine? I suppose we'll find out.
The mere existence of nuclear weapons means that our future is in jeopardy. That bell can’t be unrung. But it doesn’t mean we have to allow the fear of that hypothetical future to prevent us from standing up to genocide.