Originally Posted by plumbum
Originally Posted by JoeBob
Ukraine could have made a deal acknowledging the reality of their situation in March and people would be warm and cozy in Kiev. Instead, they are freezing and will soon lose the entire country.

Got it.

If we would just give the southwest back to Mexico, we wouldn't have an immigration problem by your logic.

So when a your daughter gets beaten and raped, your advice is to say she shouldn't have resisted, it wouldn't have been as bad.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Did you know that the Minsk Accords would have kept the Donbas as part of Ukraine? Even though they had voted to secede?
If they followed the Minsk Accords, Ukraine could have stopped their war against their own countrymen, kept the Donbas and avoided this costly war saving 10s of thousands of lives on their side and avoiding the billions of $$ in infrastructure damage.

How smart was that?

Politics is War by Other Means