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Originally Posted by ramlaen
Sorry Ukraine but under the bus you go.
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I think it is too early to say that, diplomats are in the initial sage of trying to negotiate some kind of peace deal.
The more I think about it, this situation is a mirror image of the iraq war. Back then iraq was under Russia's sphere of influence but they didn't risk going to war directly with the USA, they just gave military support. The USA btw used the lame WMD excuse to start that war.
Back then it had been decades since the last big armed conflict the USA had fought (the vietnam war, which btw, they lost).
As a mirror image, the autocratic saddam regime is the opposite of the democratically elected ukraine government.
The thing is, if the USA gives the Ukraine army weapons that negate Russia air superiority and gives Ukraine economical support (while giving Russia thought economical sanctions), this could easily become another afganistan that would bankrupt putin in the long run, he desperately need an easy win and no doubt will try to destabilize the government in Kiev and maybe even resort to assassinations or bomb attacks).