- Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:08 pm
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There seems to be some sort of collective attempt at a multi-nation balancing act going on. On any objective assessment, there is a proxy war being conducted against Putin's Russia by various nations/NATO, keeping open supply lines and
providing armaments to Ukraine.
The balancing bit seems to be, as embodied by Germany, about avoiding Putin reaching a tipping point where he perceives, rightly or wrongly, that Russia is to all intents and purposes engaged in an escalation, or full-scale war with Ukraine's allies, and not just Ukraine itself, and is therefore motivated to wreak terrible revenge against Ukraine's allies.
I've been worried ever since last February that the echoes of Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 are unmistakable, and quite chilling. I'm still very worried.
"The opportunity to serve our country: that is all we ask.” John Smith, May 11, 1994.