Note how the US keeps cooperating eventhough russia keeps betraying them. Because if they start betraying eachother the outcome could be much worse. russia effectively broke the game. And they're stuck playing betrayal.
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Confrontation is required but no one wants to do it. Because they fear the consequences. Meanwhile russia continues due to a lack of consequence.
aug 28, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
As soon as we allowed nuclear brinkmsnship to run cover for unprovoked invasions, we gave away the game. Now russia gets to pick us off one by one.
aug 28, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
This is where I strongly disagree. I think russia got all the consequences possible and then some. Economy, population collapse is not a joke.
aug 28, 2025, 10:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Ukraine fights alone. 100.000 men short. Losing territory. Relentlessly bombed. The West its credibility and deterrence in shambles. And the war isn't over yet. It's the West scrambling for peace, not russia.
aug 28, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not merely fear of consequence, it's also lack of capability. Europe is too weak. That's what invited russian aggression in the first place.
aug 28, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
We'll see in a year. Europe did screw up, no doubt about it, but russia screwed up more.
aug 28, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Or it just implodes like ussr did.
aug 28, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
no, don't get me wrong. I totally get the game. But I would also say: in a world of great power competition, it was all but inevitable, sooner or later.
aug 28, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view