US has no good options in Ukraine
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Israel is not backing Ukraine. They're pulling an India so far. |
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It does have the world's best assassins. |
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And as a permanent member of the UNSC, Russia wields a veto. The question of the UN helping, outside of humanitarian aid when the conflict ends, is moot. |
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This Thomas Friedman article has a lot of interesting points:
"This is the first war that will be covered on TikTok by super-empowered individuals armed only with smartphones, so acts of brutality will be documented and broadcast worldwide without any editors or filters. On the first day of the war, we saw invading Russian tank units unexpectedly being exposed by Google maps, because Google wanted to alert drivers that the Russian armor was causing traffic jams." "“It’s been less than 24 hours since Russia invaded Ukraine, yet we already have more information about what’s going on there than we would have in a week during the Iraq war,” wrote Daniel Johnson, who served as an infantry officer and journalist with the U.S. Army in Iraq..." "Anyone up for an anti-Putin truckers strike to prevent Russian goods going to and through Western Europe by way of Poland? Watch that space. Some super-empowered Polish citizens with a few roadblocks, pickups and smartphones could choke Russia’s whole economy in this wired world." "First, China’s economy is more dependent on Ukraine than Russia’s. According to Reuters, “China leapfrogged Russia to become Ukraine’s biggest single trading partner in 2019, with overall trade totaling $18.98 billion last year, a nearly 80 percent jump from 2013. … China became the largest importer of Ukrainian barley in the 2020-21 marketing year,” and about 30 percent of all of China’s corn imports last year came from farms in Ukraine." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine.html |
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It’s just painful. All the familiar names, places I’ve driven through, familiar landmarks, and seeing people who have been so hopeful, seeing the incremental improvements, who’ve been through so much in their aspiration for independence, who fought for it for so long. 30 years of independence to get crushed again by russia. I am hopeful for a best outcome, but even a best outcome is one of death and destruction.
and russia, please don’t tell me about the bravery of 2000 out of 140 million who have expressed their anti war. The war has been going on since 2014. How many expressed anti war sentiment during those years? The soldiers, the army, the police are all russian and if they are protecting the regime, they must agree with it. This is not a situation where the power / army is held by a different nationality, race, religion, or ethnicity than those protesting. This is not Indians standing up to the British, or Algerians revolting against the French. Ultimately, the army, and the police have a choice to not shoot their own compatriots. They choose not to. They could choose civil disobedience. After 8 years, the bravery is too little, too late. So, while bombs are falling on kindergartens in ukraine, it’s adding insult to injury to write about the brave russians because they dared walk in their streets. They had 8 years to express their anti war sentiment. Ukraine is losing whether it “wins”, it’s just degrees of how much loss. 14,000 have already been killed since 2014 and over 1 million internally displaced persons, and now more deaths, more destruction, and more refugees. Many are those who already left their homes in 2014, and are now leaving their lives again. |
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Why wouldn’t they just surrender, it would
save lives and bloodshed. They are overpowered and outnumbered. |
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