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I suspect he's so brutal in Ukraine because he's trying to provoke NATO and its allies into further action, such as defending air space over Ukraine. The worse this gets, the harder it becomes ethically not to get involved. His deliberate and brutal targeting of civilians is designed to provoke us further into what looks a lot like the beginning of a world war.[/quote]

I don't think that was his original intention - he really thought Ukrainians would welcome him, and the government would present much weaker opposition. But ultimately you're correct: there are reports of mass casualities, and as they increase, it will get harder and harder to avoid military intervention from NATO. I hope we can avoid it, because that is WWIII guaranteed.

What must happen, I hope, is that [b]the West makes the sacrifice to stop buying oil and gas from Russia. It is literally what's propping up the Putin regime. No other client can make up for NATO countries, which are Russia's biggest clients by far. [/b] For some European countries, it will be a HUGE sacrifice - their populations will have difficulty heating their homes next winter, let alone using their cars. Agriculture will be particularly hard hit. Luckily, we are moving into Spring right now, so the psychological timing for popular opinion may be just lukewarm enough that governments in Germany and other places heavily dependent on Russian energy may be pressured into it, if images of genocide are emotional enough.

And that would be stop the war in its tracks. Russia cannot survive without its sales of energy.

So what we must advocate for, all of us, is a system of energy support for countries who need it the most (Germany, etc) in this time of crisis. We need to share resources. We need to make concessions to OPEC countries to strike some kind of deal. Pain at the pump will be significant, but that is the price of toppling the Russian regime which has been oppressing its citizens for decades, and murdering its neighbors and others civilians in war zones around the world.

Please call your senators and congresspeople.

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Will you be disappointed when all of this blows over just like Covid and people in the west still get to keep their homes warm and won't be trapped without transportation? [/quote]

PP you replied to. I'm French, and have lived in the US for years. France doesn't depend that much on Russian energy compare to Germany but we would still suffer from not buying it. Perhaps if you're American, you don't have that gut feeling of horror that Russia has started a land war in Europe less than a century after WWII. Apart from Pearl Harbor, you didn't have aggression on your soil. For Europeans, the scale and intent of this new Putin aggression is unacceptable. We have live memory of the last world war. We have the bomb craters in our landscape, and the bunkers and all the cemeteries (including the American cemetery in Normandy).

I'm not sure I understand your question. [/quote]

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