Comment by thriftwy
2 years ago
I wonder when you will arrive at the understanding that if Russia is not going to have more revolutions, then you are going to have to live alongside Russia on the tiniest of continents and it would be best for both sides to learn how.
Is's not like you're going in with a military action and capturing Volgograd, after all. Adolf Hitler could be neutralized by capturing Berlin. Good luck dealing with Russia that way.
Learning to live is arming the eastern NATO border to the teeth. Russia has never stopped trying to expand westward, is still very far from giving up on its imperialism and strength is the only language it understands.
Not sure how much (more) arming to the teeth of NATO is needed when France / UK / USA have thermonuclear ICBMs.
The problem is what to do with the likes of Georgia and Ukraine (which has been deeply regretting giving up nukes against Russian/US/UK "protection" for some years now).
Then you will have a permanent war in Europe, get used to it and make yourself comfortable.
Can you explain? European (NATO) countries will "provoke" Russia into invading by securing their internationally recognized borders?
So far, we have seen the opposite pattern of Russia messing with countries which didn't make it into NATO in time.
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We'll have another cold war, carefully watching each other like Koreans on both sides of the DMZ do. Russia likes frozen conflicts so that what they'll get, until it collapses again like the USSR did and like all empires do. The trouble with that is a bunch of unstable dictators with nukes instead of one czar with nukes.