re: #89 No Malarkey!

No. As tragic as this is for Ukraine, we can’t risk a nuclear war. If Putin thinks he can swiftly install a puppet government in Kyiv then all will be well, he is going to learn some hard lessons we just spent 20 years learning in Iraq and Afghanistan.

we have ways of avoiding that. biden can have a very private talk with putin, indicating that NATO will play with sandbox rules in Ukraine: everything will be contained in Ukraine, we won’t spill over into Russian territory. Russia can bring as many troops as it wants into the Ukraine conflict and that will be fine. We won’t attack Russian forces outside the Ukraine zone. Hell, we did it in Korea and Vietnam.