• froh42@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I live in Germany, was a teenager in the 80s. We would have been ground zero then, and would be ground zero now.

    I’ve already spent all the fear of nuclear war in the 80s. I am just not able to fear nuclear war now, anymore. The fear just dulls after nearly half a century.

    The choice is to let a madman bring war to one country after another or to stop it - with the cost that stopping has a miniscule chance of me getting vaporized.

    But doing nothing will keep the risk of nuclear war for another 50 years. It has to be stopped now, appeasement never did anything good.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      All the west has accomplished so far is to ensure that more Ukraine is destroyed, and it’s obvious to anybody with a functioning brain that there is no chance of Ukraine winning at this point. The best chance Ukraine had was last summer during the fabled offensive that failed miserably. Ukraine is never going to be in as good position going forward. So the actual choice is to ensure more people keep dying or to negotiate with Russia. Incredible that after two years westerners still can’t get this through their skulls.