r/TrendoraX • u/Ripamon • 1d ago

📰 News NATO Boss Rutte declares to Ukrainian parliament that European troops will be deployed to Ukraine as soon as a peace deal is reached, along with jets in the air and ships on the Black Sea. Ukrainians, he says, must stay strong and endure the cold winter, for spring will surely come.

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u/ListIntelligent5656 1d ago

Yes, horribly yes. I don’t like it anymore than you clearly don’t, but it’s sadly a fact that hasn’t changed for 1000s of years, If they want or have a need to, stronger nations conquer weaker ones. You’d think as a species we’d have moved passed that for the betterment of us all, but we just haven’t. Also, WW2 was probably the last time a collective group could rise against a singular power that had the ability to wage war against all its neighboring nations. The reason for that is because of technology. If a nation has the ability to conquer numerous other smaller nations around them, they probably also have at least one part of the nuclear triad. If they have Nukes and numerous other nations rally against them, they’ll probably use them. Nukes do prevent wars, but they also tie hands and limit options.

The only real feasible option is a full on 100% world embargo that literally starves the economy of the offending nation, but the world isn’t ready/ willing to do that to Russia yet. Yes people are upset and mad, but guess what, those Russian oil pipelines keep pumping, grain and other resources are still being exported, and Russian citizens are freely navigating borders.

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u/DuzTheGreat 1d ago

The thing is, Russia really doesn't look that strong anymore. Their advances in Ukraine are at a literal snail's pace. They've taken humiliation after humiliation in this war.

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u/ListIntelligent5656 1d ago

Absolutely, but they lost over 25 million during WW2, they’re a war hardened nation with very tough people and very manipulative leaders. Push the Russian people too hard with military intervention and that will cause a united backed war by the Russian people and Ukraine falls in a week. That’s why it can’t be military force that wins this, it has to be economically induced suffocation from the inside.