re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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"Russia is obviously winning" stuff, to me, doesn't matter... if the collective West decides "there's no fricking way we're letting Putin win" he will be stopped

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Obviously if we decide all options are on the table they lose. The question is "is Ukraine worth it?" and the answer is "no". It always was no and always will be no.

So then the question becomes "Can we bankroll Ukraine into winning the war since we won't fight it?". I think if we choose to decimate our own stocks and the stocks of our allies we can. Can we do it in a responsible way? Not sure.

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I wonder if a lot of the tepid-seeming approaches the US and West seem to take in this is somewhat due to the "if Putin falls immediately, what happens to the over 5,600 nukes scattered across 14 time zones?" thing?

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If the problem ended with Putin, or if his death wouldn't create more problems, it would have happened already.