Kevin Peacocke
AH ambassador
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- Feb 10, 2018
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Until somebody in Russia calls a halt, Putin or his generals, this war will continue. The West trickle fed Ukraine when they could have given them the ability to be decisive, so now we have the next level of them semi-effectively attacking 'Russian soil'. They will not stop.
The soft way out now is to force the Ukranians to accept their lot at the negotiating table, but throwing them under the bus tastes really bad and leaves Russia emboldened. The hard way is to arm Ukraine to the teeth to quickly win this field battle and call Russia's bluff on the nukes. Dangerous, but unless it is done then we are back to the cool war forever.
There is a third option - up the ante. Tell Russia that if they play the annexation game and then threaten nukes on everyone then Nato will immediately declare Ukraine in total a member state with all the repercussions.
The soft way out now is to force the Ukranians to accept their lot at the negotiating table, but throwing them under the bus tastes really bad and leaves Russia emboldened. The hard way is to arm Ukraine to the teeth to quickly win this field battle and call Russia's bluff on the nukes. Dangerous, but unless it is done then we are back to the cool war forever.
There is a third option - up the ante. Tell Russia that if they play the annexation game and then threaten nukes on everyone then Nato will immediately declare Ukraine in total a member state with all the repercussions.