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I dont agree that russia is being expansionist however. its response to nato expansion is not surprising. you can imagine how the us would respond if the tables were turned. altho in fact you dont have to imagine, bc it happened with similar results

not sure what you want me to say. ending the war requires some kind of compromise. idk what that is. pre 2014 situ seems like a good place to start.

fair play

brave

or can we just write off russias nuclear deterrent?

let's just assume, for arguments sake, that they work. then do you agree that we have to factor them in to the overall calculus of the war?

but do you know that they're unusable, or are you just saying they might be?

deescalate to avoid a nuclear war

if russias nuclear weapons are completely unusable then surely we would know

I imagine that putin wants to retain power. and moreover wants to avoid winding up like Gaddafi. so if that's on the cards, nukes look like an attractive option. maybe there are other things that bring them onto the table, idk. theyre there arent they, it would be foolish to think that Russia...

so you agree that its possible? and are there any situations which make it more likely? what do they look like?

the logic is iron clad

we haven't been wiped out in a nuclear war yet, so its obviously not a possibility

at what point does it enter your thinking as a potential outcome? two nuclear powers go to war - is there some other criteria which has to be breached?

but the obvious point is that the nukes are a last resort. putin is hitting the button only when he has no other options, so the threat in response no longer applies

are you really not scared by the prospect of nuclear war?

that isnt happening, however, and ofc there are other factors - nukes - so maybe we need a different approach

for sure

that's pretty interesting actually - if you look at how the dollar system has grown its precisely through crises which reinforced and retrenched dependencies on it, which is not so diff to whats happening today with the belt and road initiative

also, "war is bad, m'kay"? isnt war bad, objectively?