• Tunnelvision [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    Yup, the west has screwed itself over in a multitude of ways in this situation. Really even if they had engaged Russia in Ukraine but told Ukraine to concede the Donbas it would still have been fine, but at this point so many mistakes have been made that as you said there’s no turning back. Really the biggest one was freezing and then taking the Russian reserves that were in the US.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      5 months ago

      For sure, there were many offramps available even after the conflict started and the west chose to take the worst possible way forward each and every time.

      • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        5 months ago

        Well they didn’t officially send US uniformed troops to Ukraine, which might have been the very worst possible way since it would have meant either tens of thousands of coffins heading back or global nuclear holocaust

        • freagle
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          Well, the French just deployed, so now we know that it’s going to be European soldiers dying before US soldiers finally go in