Us being in Ukraine is only a problem for those countries that are invading. We are not going to invade Russia, we are standing up and protecting people who are being shot by a dictatorship. If they stop shooting and throwing bombs at civilians then there isn’t a problem.
I wish we had the balls to stick some peacekeepers in Palestine.
Right i see why you think that, its a very seductive argument. We are in the right, we protect the weak, therefore what could possibly be bad about our presence?
However, thats not how real politics works. Russia will undoubtedly see this as a threat and it will escalate the war further. It doesn’t matter if they are correct to view us as such, but they will.
Unless Russia agrees to some unilateral peacekeeping arrangements as part of a peace deal, which seems unlikely, then why should we poke the beast?
There is also the fact that peacekeeping is not our forte, remember iraq, Afghanistan? Do you really think that pro-russian militias won’t retaliate? It doesn’t matter that we are in the right, our presence will not lead to peace.
I think Einstein said you can’t simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Its time to choose which you want.
Regarding your Palestine comment, its just a completely different situation. Im not sure its comparable. Peacekeeping forces might be part of a settlement reached by hamas and Israel but it would have to be acceptable to both parties otherwise it leads to more violence.
Basically, don’t try and counter Russia’s aggression, just roll over and let them steam roll over everyone. Let them do what they want. Don’t dare to help out allies from being attacked by their aggressive neighbour, that would be bad.
So in order to get peace you want to escalate the war?
There is no sense in this argument. When has increasing the presence of troops ever led to fruitful peace talks?
From their perspective it just looks like we’re about to invade Russia for a regime change
Us being in Ukraine is only a problem for those countries that are invading. We are not going to invade Russia, we are standing up and protecting people who are being shot by a dictatorship. If they stop shooting and throwing bombs at civilians then there isn’t a problem.
I wish we had the balls to stick some peacekeepers in Palestine.
Right i see why you think that, its a very seductive argument. We are in the right, we protect the weak, therefore what could possibly be bad about our presence?
However, thats not how real politics works. Russia will undoubtedly see this as a threat and it will escalate the war further. It doesn’t matter if they are correct to view us as such, but they will.
Unless Russia agrees to some unilateral peacekeeping arrangements as part of a peace deal, which seems unlikely, then why should we poke the beast?
There is also the fact that peacekeeping is not our forte, remember iraq, Afghanistan? Do you really think that pro-russian militias won’t retaliate? It doesn’t matter that we are in the right, our presence will not lead to peace.
I think Einstein said you can’t simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Its time to choose which you want.
Regarding your Palestine comment, its just a completely different situation. Im not sure its comparable. Peacekeeping forces might be part of a settlement reached by hamas and Israel but it would have to be acceptable to both parties otherwise it leads to more violence.
Basically, don’t try and counter Russia’s aggression, just roll over and let them steam roll over everyone. Let them do what they want. Don’t dare to help out allies from being attacked by their aggressive neighbour, that would be bad.