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In reply to the discussion: do people today understand what war with Russia would mean? [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)Simply put, there can be no winner in nuclear war. It's why the only time anybody dropped one as a weapon was when only one country had them.
But let's say you're right and we twiddle our thumbs while Russia takes over Ukraine. What happens if Putin decides to reclaim influence over Poland and the countries of the former Yugoslavia? If we buy your premise, we can simply continue to twiddle our thumbs.
If you say that we can't do anything now because there might be a negative outcome, then you are effectively saying that we can never do anything. But if that logic were to apply, then Russia would be equally afraid of a war with us because they would get nuked just as much.
That said, there are a number of other steps that can be taken that is short of full out war that go beyond doing nothing.