rojimboo: I don't think you understand. Russia has more nuclear weapons than NATO put together. To threaten Russia by putting missiles next to their door step would be very foolish, especially with a madman dicator at the reins.
Yet this is exactly what NATO has been doing for 30 years since USSR collapsed.
rojimboo: Before you were talking about the need for diplomacy, then you constantly bring up nuclear weapons. It sounds me to like you already gave up on any notion of peace.
All the remaining shreds of an optimist inside me are hoping for a peaceful resolution. A realist inside me is checking off what I can from my bucket list.
rojimboo: Why are you so insistent in not seeing anything bad about the invasion? Can you even call it that anymore in Russia? I thought they banned it. Wouldn't want you or anyone else knowing the truth, right?
Could you, maybe, quote me where exactly did I said that I see nothing bad about invasion?
FYI I have close relatives in Ukraine hiding in basements and being bombed right now. I see nothing good about that invasion. None at all. I just don't think that punishing regular russian people for it is going to solve anything, instead it is just going to spread hate. Which it does right now as we speak.
Escape into this stuff, called gaming, is about the only thing that is keeping me somewhat sane while I worry about my close ones in Ukraine. And then some f@#s in CDPR decide they should take it away from me. You how that makes me feel? Makes me feel sorry to be russian? No, that makes me angry. Not at Putin. I was angry at him long before that happened.
"Why didn't you do anything then?"
What? Go out, publicly protest and be arrested? I am a sole provider, who's gonna care about my elderly mother and my family? And most important it would be pointless. Completely. For a protest to have some hope of success there has to be at least two centers of power in a country. We have ONE. Which has full support of police forces and army. And a good chuck of a population. And you know what those sanctions are doing? They help to grow that support! Out of anger. Doesn't that completely defeat the purpose?
rojimboo: And how is Russia being threatened by Ukraine? They gave their nukes away (in no small part to Russian 'diplomacy'). Will the nazis of Ukraine invade Russia? Is this the 'Western threat' that you allude to?
I don't know how. But I don't buy into that idealistic rhetoric about "mad dictator". Putin is not some fairy tale villain who rules alone with magical superpowers and can kill you just by looking at you. For this invasion to be backed up by all high ranking military and high ranking business elites of Russia they had to be cornered into it. I don't buy into "de-nazification" pretense, but I don't buy into "mad dictator". Even Hitler's atrocities had financial reasons, not: "he's evil cause he's evil".