Quote (ofthevoid @ 6 Sep 2023 07:25)
This scenario reminds me of the Biblical story of when Solomon faced the two women and the baby. It's just difficult for me to understand how Ukrainian leadership actually has the best interests of it's people in this scenario. It's not to say the contrast is true, that somehow Russia does, because that's also not true. For Ukraine, you are willingly sending tens of thousands of your own people fully knowing they will get slaughtered, many of them against their will. And for what? For lines on a map? Out of pride? Even if they fully retake the Donbass you think many of the people that lost sons or fathers that died there between 2014-present fighting for DNR/LNR are somehow going to benevolently accept your rule?
If I am the average Taiwanese person or even politician and I'm looking at this current scenario I'm going to think long and hard about sacrificing hundreds of thousands, maybe more to end up in the same outcome (assuming some military intervention plays out).
Just to add, the communist and Marxist Ideology might make some sense 150 to 200 years back. But it is ill fated for our era as it was being proven. Utopian as it is, it doesn't work. And the Marxists tried to spread it worldwide and failed badly.
The same can be said about American Liberalism. Which they are spreading worldwide.
Just because something works in one market it does not necessary work in all markets. There needs to be certain tweaks to it to make it fit into different culture.