I got upset earlier today. I apologize to anyone I called a communist useful idiot kissing the ring of wannabe tsar.
I lived through this shit the first time around, and I don’t want to do so again. More importantly, I don’t want hundreds of millions of people to have to relive the oppression, the tanks in the streets, the privation, the fear, the secret police, the disappearings, the detentions, the absence of rule of law, the daily existential threats to humanity — a world on a knife’s edge.
Life as a Soviet vassal was not a good one and while nuclear weapons may have prevented full-scale great power wars, they damn sure also made it easier for each side to sacrifice a country as a “buffer” here or there — as though anyone can so casually barter away or gamble with the lives of millions.
The 34 million people of Ukraine are not a bargaining chip, any less than are 4 million Georgians or 20 million Romanians or anyone else with a target on their back. They deserve the chance to forge their own way without the threat of (for actual) bloodshed for doing so.
But those dreads aside, I shouldn’t have made it personal.
Yes, Putin has almost nothing to lose and he doesn’t care about sanctions anymore. A united answer from all NATO and European countries is the only thing that can stop him. Though, an invasion of Ukraine won’t be a weekend walk, they will die in tens of thousands.
Nah, there is no need for Russia to launch a full scale invasion. They can send enough “volunteers” and pretend that they are not involved.
The nonexistent war that’s been going on for over 8 years?
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I got upset earlier today. I apologize to anyone I called a communist useful idiot kissing the ring of wannabe tsar.
I lived through this shit the first time around, and I don’t want to do so again. More importantly, I don’t want hundreds of millions of people to have to relive the oppression, the tanks in the streets, the privation, the fear, the secret police, the disappearings, the detentions, the absence of rule of law, the daily existential threats to humanity — a world on a knife’s edge.
Life as a Soviet vassal was not a good one and while nuclear weapons may have prevented full-scale great power wars, they damn sure also made it easier for each side to sacrifice a country as a “buffer” here or there — as though anyone can so casually barter away or gamble with the lives of millions.
The 34 million people of Ukraine are not a bargaining chip, any less than are 4 million Georgians or 20 million Romanians or anyone else with a target on their back. They deserve the chance to forge their own way without the threat of (for actual) bloodshed for doing so.
But those dreads aside, I shouldn’t have made it personal.
Yes, Putin has almost nothing to lose and he doesn’t care about sanctions anymore. A united answer from all NATO and European countries is the only thing that can stop him. Though, an invasion of Ukraine won’t be a weekend walk, they will die in tens of thousands.
Nah, there is no need for Russia to launch a full scale invasion. They can send enough “volunteers” and pretend that they are not involved.
The nonexistent war that’s been going on for over 8 years?
Malarkey.