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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The problem with that argument is that you can't win. Because he won't stop.
If you don't intervene (allow him this move), he will make another. And then you will be faced with the same dilemma (if we intervene, he may use nukes). And then another.
You can hope that he'll stop on his own, but that is incredibly naïve IMO.
Putin is a bully and he respects strength, and despises weakness. He will have to be stood up to at some point, and the best time to do that is now - each time we wait, each move we allow him, only emboldens him to be more aggressive.
And with each move in this game becoming a larger play, the likelihood of nukes actually goes up.
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Putin stopping at nothing short of world domination if not met with NATO military intervention is probably less likely than a nuclear war marking the end of humanity.