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What are you suggesting? That I should be patient and trust the system?

The system has failed. People are dying.

This is our Hitler.

Diplomacy was never an option.

Putin recorded his declaration of war before telling the world that diplomacy was still an option.

He will only be stopped by swift and decisive military action from the entirety of the free world.

Anything short of that, and the blood of Ukrainians is on the hands of the Western world too.




He will only be stopped by swift and decisive military action from the entirety of the free world.

Things get complicated when you go toe to toe with a nuclear superpower.

What outcome do you expect when an authoritarian dictator with nukes is cornered and being bombarded by Western military from all sides?


> Things get complicated when you go toe to toe with a nuclear superpower.

Especially one ruled by a egotistical madman with a grudge

That said, nato should have made huge show and noise about the Russian preparations around Ukraine directly causing nato to strengthen and beef up on the eastern boarder, and upped the troops on nato states massively. Things they are doing now. Those things should have been done before.

The sanction timeline is okay, the nato beefing up an communication around it was late.


Putin is just doing what NATO did in Serbia in 90s, I see no difference really, yet these NATO hypocrites get upset when someone else is doing it.

Only countries which can speak out are those which were against the NATO bombing and don't recognize Kosovo, everyone else has blood on their hands even without Ukraine.


It should be noted that Russia, as a member of the UN security council, voted in support of international military intervention in Kosovo.


> Putin is just doing what NATO did in Serbia in 90s

I didn't realize that he was intervening in an ongoing genocide


That's what he claims Ukrainians are doing to separatists.


Ethnic cleansing. Genocide triggers a responsibility to intervene, under the UN charter.

Aren't euphemisms wonderful?


You mean like UN intervened in Srebrenica or Rwanda, that UN charter?


My point exactly.


> Putin is just doing what NATO did in Serbia in 90s

Well, no.

He may be claiming loosely similar things, but people can claim similar things when doing radically different ones.




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