| | | Of course they do.
The Russians must know that if they go this route, they will be suffering the same fate.
So, do you really want to go into that maelstrom of doom?
At some stage, appeasement stops and that stopped years ago. USA/NATO kept on going. Relentlessly. Russia has seen it all before = many times. Barbarossa, WWI, Crimean war, 1812 Overture. So Putin finally stood before their monument, for minutes, and decided enough was enough, and more would be too much.
USA chose a game of chicken, right up to the Russian borders, with sanctions and threats galore, including invading a sovereign country, Syria, and killing invited Russians there. USA was not letting up an inch. Kept on coming.
Putin threw the steering wheel out the window.
Now USA has to decide whether to keep playing chicken or come to a sensible, rational, reasonable, democratic solution. Or choose the Final Solution. People in retrospect decided World War I was a bad idea. WWIII will be a 95% population reduction and a lot more than that in the USA.
USA says they like democracy. Let's see if they agree to independent states in eastern Ukraine making their own choices - as in Brexit, Scottish independence vote, Quebec vote, Irish vote, many votes for independence around the world with no wars needed. Various Commonwealth countries deciding whether to retain King Charles Spaniel as sovereign [or whatever he currently is].
I recommend democracy, not war. Ukraine conquering the recalcitrant easterners by murder became unacceptable. Like China conquering Taiwan by murder is unacceptable. And like Eurostan conquering England was unacceptable - resolved by a Brexit vote. Same as the Scottish vote.
So, your choice = do you want democracy and voting, or the end of the world?
Think carefully.
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