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

Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

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First bomb out of the rack from Russia
or its North Korean pal will result in a lot of
unplanned Russian demolitions and NK would be
be history.

Putin won't nuke the Ukraine because he views it as an integral part of
his empire and he wants it whole and intact.  Or as whole and intact as
possible.

But surrounding areas, he doesn't care about except in that they provide
a zone of isolation around Russia... and Poland and Czechia can do that
just fine whether or not they are habitable.

Now the question: is he stupid and crazy enough to do that in the face of
invariable retaliation?  That's the one I can't answer, and the more that
he isolates himself from the outside world the harder that gets to answer.

If we had stood up to the Third Reich earlier
the Germans might not have advised the Japanese that
we were not fighters. Pacificistic Isolationists and
anti-semites kept Roosevelt from helping Europe until
we were attacked by Germany's Allies, the Axis.

Indeed.  On the whole, Chamberlain and Petain didn't go down very well
in history. 

Pacifistic intentions are fine until the invader
is at your door. Then you better hope that you have
learned from the past.

I am very strongly against war in general.  But we have war: now how do we
minimize the size of the conflict?

Kicking the can down the road a while doesn't help anything... a bad peace
treaty is what wound up causing WWII in the first place.
-scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."