27th February 2022, 8:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 27th February 2022, 8:43 AM by etoven.)
(25th February 2022, 12:52 AM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: The good news is sanctions seem like they really can be effective. Russia showed economic weakness shortly after their attack. Sadly, the Russian public will be harmed by the sanctions first, but what other choice is there?
Sending our own troops into the Ukraine won't necessarily result in nuclear war, but it also wouldn't accomplish anything. If NATO invades and pushes out Russia, we have to stop at the Russian border. THAT would be where the risk of nukes comes into play. So, then what? We pushed them out, we leave, and then they can just send the troops right back in. Alright, we push them out, and we stay. Now we're the occupying force. What did that do for the Ukrainians?
Trump went and removed the best treaty we ever had with Russia... For all we know, that may have been the impetus, but let's not forget that Russia sent in troops during Trump's tenure as well. Trump didn't do a thing to stop it.
Saw on the news that the world hit the off button on most of putans credit cards by cutting his SWIFT access.
However, of larger interest was the picture I saw today of all the russians lining up down the block to use a ATM that clearly doesn't work now because of it.
Been following the story for about two weeks, it was pretty amazing to watch America bust putin's plan of a false flag coup straight to hell.
But not as amazing as watching putin throw a hail mary pass and do it anyways. Always pictured him as a tyrant but never pictured him as a stupid tirent.
When the dust clears he will have gained nothing from this and most likely will have lost everything.