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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
What are you basing that on?
Nobody knows how much the Kremlin does or does not support Putin, or even if anybody has the ability to "overthrow" him. Sure doesn't seem like the will is there as of yet. It's pretty terrifying and I think it is a huge mistake by NATO to let any other members in, especially countries bordering Russia. All you are doing is feeding this irrational paranoia and serving justification to Putin to frame such moves as "western aggression" and parlaying into his story about Russians needing to fear "the west". It's them against the world now, right? Only one way out. Stupid of NATO.
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Should the US kick Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to appease him so that NATO doesn’t have any countries that boarder Russia. What about Poland and Turkey just to increase that bigger distance? Appeasement doesn’t work. Actions have consequences for Nuclear powers too. Otherwise you are saying that Russia can invade and all NATO will do is fight proxy wars which just leads to proxy wars and more escalation.
The only acceptable way to play nuclear game theory is to never back down. As soon as a nuclear power knows that you will back down when challenged you have lost. Leave Putin outs, but a changed map and a unified Europe are a natural consequence Putin’s aggression.
And if that results in nuking the world then I would argue that no course of action could have prevented him from nuking the world. Because of a person is willing to destroy all life on earth for some perceived threat that person will find a reason to destroy all life on earth