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Feral Finster's avatar

Even if our leaders wanted to, they can't, lest the other political party pounce and accuse them of weakness and also of being Russian agents. Instead, each party competes as to who can offer the most hysterical, foaming at the mouth rhetoric and escalation.

This strategy is known as "painting oneself into a corner".

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Mike R's avatar

The US 'leadership' simply cannot accept that it cannot cow every country on the planet into submission. The four provinces that have voted to join Russia will be infinitely better off as part of Russia. Its residents will be treated like full-fledged citizens, not abused as an ethnic minority considered inferior. Its infrastructure will be rebuilt. They will know peace and normality for the first time in over 8 years. This is already happening in Mariupol. The US doesn't care. It's like a two year old throwing a temper tantrum because it can't get its way.

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