For all the horrors in the Middle East, the Iraq war was less damaging locally than Ukraine will be for Europe.
This one war could easily accomplish what took decades of coups and army movements over in the ruins of the Ottoman empire.
lets call it what it is, its not bullies, in the case of Ukraine its a concerted effort by Russia to wipe a country out of existence, including the use of rape and torture.
But your policy doesn't sound so benign when its "let rapists rape and torturers torture" does it.
And that is assuming the reasonably optimistic outcomes where Russia avoids launching a volley of nukes east or west as a final "screw you all we're not going out alone".
It's evident they end up killing Russians, we even get videos of it!.
> And that is assuming the reasonably optimistic outcomes where Russia avoids launching a volley of nukes east or west as a final "screw you all we're not going out alone".
You're telling me that the entire chair command, when faced with losing an external war to Ukraine is going to all the way down make the decision to launch and nuke and kill everyone last of themselves?.
I think thats unlikely to happen.
Having Ukraine become an official NATO base of operations is that dangerous to Russia, especially if it happens after they were just conclusively beaten in a war. It would obviously soon mean NATO support for separatists in Russian states directly, and the end of the federation.
I really hope that nuke works and that not one person in that command chain has reservations about ending the country he lives in existence in its entirety.
Make no mistake, detonating a nuke will not only bring a response from NATO, it would bring a response from the world. Russia is done for if they do that.
> Having Ukraine become an official NATO base of operations is that dangerous to Russia, especially if it happens after they were just conclusively beaten in a war. It would obviously soon mean NATO support for separatists in Russian states directly, and the end of the federation.
How is having Ukraine become a NATO member anymore dangerous then Finland?, who literally just joined NATO.
Based on literally nothing but your own fantasies.