Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On 1/12/25 11:57, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 1/12/2025 7:45 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

But... I also think this particular war can head off future wars.  I don't
like it.  I don't think it should ever have started but I also think that
diplomats on both sides did as much as they possibly could to prevent it.

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I have to disagree with that last line.  One side did their best to
prevent it without effectively surrendering their sovereignty.  The
other side demanded surrender and invaded without warning.

 Yes.  This is what happens in monarchies.  The diplomats get overriden
when the king decides differently.  It went badly for Charles I.
--scott

Yes and Ukraine did not believe our intelligence until late in
the day and very quickly went from peace to resisting the Putin invasion.
There was no diplomacy: there was only the invasion of
Crimea which the USA barely noted during the Obama era. Then
with Trump having lost the election, the invasion of mainland
Ukraine. Putin's intelligence had misinformed him as to the
sentiments of the regions inhabitants. And maybe he thought
of the Democrats as a party of peace which would act as the
USA under Obama had with little concern for a distant land.
bliss - just hobbling.