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Thursday, December 29, 2022

7 comments:

Sarah @ All The Book Blog Names Are Taken said...

Fuck yeah. I mean, I don't want to be the world police or anything like that but I do believe we should help when we can and when we are asked/needed.

CyberKitten said...

There's a lot of good geopolitical reasons for NATO to help Ukraine as much as possible. For one thing, look at the alternative if Ukraine couldn't defend itself. Would that make the world safer - at all? NOPE.

Sarah @ All The Book Blog Names Are Taken said...

Exactly. And Putin will not stop at Ukraine, if he were to be successful. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional. No one did anything about Crimea, so he thought the rest of Ukraine would be easy.

CyberKitten said...

Exactly, Sarah. Did people really learn *nothing* from 1938/39.....?

Marianne said...

I don't think they did. :(

CyberKitten said...

I'm always surprised and dismayed when people say 'just give Putin what he wants and everything will be OK'. But I think its true that the only thing we learn from History is that we don't learn from History.

How people can forget or ignore what happened in the late 30's is beyond me. After all it *was* in all the papers......

Marianne said...

If we would just give him what he wants, how about the next person comes and says, I want your house, your car, your job, your wife, whatever. No, we don't just give in to bullies otherwise they'll rule the world.

And there are still people who believe the stories about WWII to be a hoax. My parents lived in a small village, nowhere near a concentration camp but they always said, we knew the people who got taken away never returned, so whatever was done with them wasn't good.