Yeah. In retrospect, it always seems pretty stupid that we thought we could just resolve things with diplomacy and the rabid dog hanging around the building will probably just calm down and stay in the back section and we just won’t go there.
I feel like escalating to war because that’s clearly what’s up, and whatever happens happens, oh well, is one of the few areas where Churchill had it 100% right in the lead up to the global war.
I’m still a little concerned about the presence of nuclear weapons in the mix. Retrospection about escalation pre-WWII seems to be slightly off the mark give the scale of the armament…
Yes which is why it’s so important to react firmly to someone who’s deliberately playing brinksmanship with a nuclear-armed defensive alliance, so as to correctly pass the can-I-push-the-boundaries test Putin is giving here. This is like lesson #1 about dealing with bullies.
I think they should have shot down the fighters and then sent footage of the falling wreckage to Putin overlaid with the “Curb Your Enthusiam” music and fade out with “Stay in your own airspace pls and thank you.”
Yeah. In retrospect, it always seems pretty stupid that we thought we could just resolve things with diplomacy and the rabid dog hanging around the building will probably just calm down and stay in the back section and we just won’t go there.
I feel like escalating to war because that’s clearly what’s up, and whatever happens happens, oh well, is one of the few areas where Churchill had it 100% right in the lead up to the global war.
I’m still a little concerned about the presence of nuclear weapons in the mix. Retrospection about escalation pre-WWII seems to be slightly off the mark give the scale of the armament…
Yes which is why it’s so important to react firmly to someone who’s deliberately playing brinksmanship with a nuclear-armed defensive alliance, so as to correctly pass the can-I-push-the-boundaries test Putin is giving here. This is like lesson #1 about dealing with bullies.
I think they should have shot down the fighters and then sent footage of the falling wreckage to Putin overlaid with the “Curb Your Enthusiam” music and fade out with “Stay in your own airspace pls and thank you.”