Quote (Djunior @ 21 Apr 2022 20:39)
Dude you're so wrong, you have no idea. This war is going to drag on for a long long time, all over the world people will suffer the consequences from the poor countries depending on wheat to Western nations depending on natural gas, oil, minerals etc.
If you believe all of that isn't important just wait while this drags on and further escalates and then we talk again.
Russia is a massive country and they just carry on. Stating they're a gas station just shows your ignorance and that you listen to MSM propaganda too much.
Natural resources used by the economy of Russia account for 95.7% of national wealth. This is where they get their money from. Of course its possible they can carry on, just as North Korea does. But maybe Russians wont like that and Putin or his successor changes his mind about invading other countries for empire growth.
Im aware that war has its consequences, although I dont agree that it will be that very long war.
What you seem to forget is that this is the war Putin started, west couldnt do much to prevent it. Putin smelled that Ukraine was not in NATO and therefore an easier target and attacked. Putin wants to grow his empire, as he is very low on people, Russian demographics is catastrophic. He could only gather 170k soldiers for Ukraine assault, definitely needs more people to enslave to make his country an empire. As simple as that.
Giving up is not an option really. Remember Hitler? he was given first Austria for free, but he was of course still hungry, then he asked for Czechia, he was of course still hungry, then he invaded Poland, west still did nothing, he was of course still hungry, he took France, then he attacked Britain and this is where he stopped.
Stopped not because he wanted to, but by force, by the british air force (supported by some friends). Could be stopped long before, and west was somewhat lucky as Battle of Britain was a close one.
Now when Putin asks for eastern europe, you gonna give it to him, right? Who cares about some eastern countries after all. Next he asks maybe for Alaska, it was a russian empire some time ago after all so Putin has rights to it, right? Who cares about some northern cold area.
Next China could ask for Japan and USA west coast, because why not, people can always move from west side to east side states, right?
What I mean: Of course war is a bad thing, but still better than giving up your freedom without fight.
For NATO providing some help to Ukraine is a proper thing to do, as first of all its a low cost way to stop Putin: you dont risk your own people lives, you dont risk your people blood. Second of all you do a proper thing to help the poor Ukrainians, who were unlucky to trust Russians in the 90s and stayed outside of NATO to please Russia.