RE: War Is Peace
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The point that I wanted to make in my post is that peace has somehow been turned into something that we should not strive for; instead we hear that more tanks and aircraft etc. should be shipped to the front lines every day. Will this stop the war? I seriously doubt it. And if it does not, diplomacy is the only option.
What we should want is good and lasting peace. Agreeing to a peace agreement allowing to Russia keep what it has stolen from Ukraine, which is roughly 20% of its land, among which is some of its most valuable land, and thousands of children kidnapped by Russia to be brainwashed in Russia, is not conducive to lasting peace because it would teach Putin and every dictator in the world that wars of conquest can be profitable. Putin is not deterred by any number of Russian lives lost or ruined or the ruination of the Russian economy insofar as it does not risk his presidency. Ukrainians understand this and anyone should understand this by taking a look at how we got here. Russia wasn't punished at all for invading Georgia and making parts of Georgia its puppet statelets in 2008. In 2014, Russia was allowed to instigate a war in the Donbas and to grab Crimea without crippling sanctions. The pattern is clear. If no line is drawn here, there will be a bigger war in the future with more countries involved.
Diplomacy without power to back it up is worthless with a counterpart like Putin. If Putin is allowed to get what he wants we will return to an era where international borders are redrawn through the force of arms.
P.S. To American isolationists I have to say that if Eurasia is allowed to become the battleground of competing empires it was prior to WW I, it will be impossible for America to remain unaffected only for the simple reason that four countries in Eurasia have strategic nuclear weapons with more to come if Russia (and later China) are allowed to fulfill their ambitions.
It is also a moral imperative to arm a country waging a defensive war against a larger neighbor having genocidal war goals.