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by beachy
1349 days ago
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> And so, a long drawn-out stalemate in Ukraine is maybe the best course, for everyone except Russia and Ukraine. Imperialist thinking. Why should Ukrainians accept having their country invaded? Why should they just put up with it because of some imaginings about how the world as a whole would be more stable if they bowed down to the dictator? Screw that. Putin in a wild card, a megalomaniac. You can't reason with or even about such people. The only course with such bullying is to stamp it out. |
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Of course the loss of life is horrific and we should absolutely do what we can to help stop that, but apart from that moral concern, we're really helping because of the bigger picture of containing/punishing a bully, and deterring similar action from others like China, NK, etc.
Given that we're helping because of the wider implications, we should have a clear idea of what that bigger picture is, and calibrate our help in support of strategic goals.
Putin, and the Russia allied with him must fail, but that does not necessarily mean a battlefield defeat, in fact they will lose hardest through exhaustion.
The west, particularly America, too often gets sucked into the 'sport and glory and winning' of these situations, and Zelenski is understandably egging it on.