How Will the War End?
a) Reward Russia for it's aggression
b) Send a signal to the Putin regime that we would rather sue for peace on his terms than fight back.
Surely that's what encouraged Putin in the first place. The knowledge that if we say "this far and no further" it's an empty threat.
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NEVER going to happen, Ukraine is sitting on some of the largest gas reserves in the world, in fact enough to cut Russia out of the European market apparently and prior to 2014 had signed a deal with Shell to extract it. The gas reserves along with coal and many other minerals are sitting underneath the Donbas and the Azov Sea, similar with the Ukrainian waters off Crimea with both Gas and Oil. To hand those over to Russia would in effect rob Ukraine of its ability to finance the Country, it would also lose a lot of wheat production estate as well as the industrial heartland of the Country..
I am still capable of some sympathy for the Russian 'masses' and the conquered and more or less assimilated people. Unfortunately, their passivity and (effective) passive co-operation with everything Kremlin decides is part of the problem. So I am all for some 'far reaching consequences'. It's their (and ours) only hope, I think.
Russians won't know the freedom until they have their Day of the Bastille - burning down all FSB outlets. Logically, troll farms would be next.
Russians won't know the freedom until they have their Day of the Bastille - burning down all FSB outlets. Logically, troll farms would be next.
Does the current state of affairs in Canada prove or disprove your theory?
Do the people support the Trudeau government policies and actions or do they not give a fig so long as it is not "them" what gets harmed.....and just how much control over government do the People of Canada actually exert?
For that matter....how much control over government does any population actually have in reality?
How many different Bastille Days shall it take. before governments in general get their comeuppance
Dutch Farmers seem to be standing up....Canadian truckers stood up....look back to the Covid Mandates for an example of how passive populations can be in the face of government over reach.
But not majority numbers of citizens are doing so anywhere.....much less Russia.
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On the one hand you get something like what's going on in Russia where that government starts an unjust war then makes people go and fight it using outdated equipment all while making its own citizens destroy the infrastructure of the country they chose to invade. Anyone who dares to resist is taken away and punished
On the other hand you have a pandemic disease that in the end killed over one million people in the US alone and various governments around the world take the stance that it's a deadly threat and they should do something about it to protect their citizens and because it's all so new with so few data points, they realise (correctly) that wearing a mask might go some way towards reducing the eventual death toll. They are in fact doing the job we elected them to do which is to protect the population. Also it's worth noting that it wasn't a mask "requirement" - it was a requirement to wear a mask when around other people, so those who refused to do it were in fact putting other people's lives at risk
Florida and Texas both ended up banning any mask mandates. Those actions probably added a significant number of deaths to the over one million the US suffered
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If we could return to the topic at hand, please, and not drift further away from it.
Thank you all in advance.
T28B
Thank you all in advance.
T28B
