re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Russia is in a position to decide where Russia ends and where Ukraine begins here. The biggest factor is their overwhelming military advantage, but geography and culture also weight in their favor too. There’s no mountain chain here to delineate the border. And the Russian identity continues to resonate with people, especially in places like Kharkov and Odessa.

We can talk about rules, but we haven’t cared about those in a long time, and we’re also not in a position to enforce them, so it just makes us look weak when we talk about them. We also can’t inflict sufficient pain on Russia to make the war fruitless for them.

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You cannot be real.

Even a child in grammar school understands that just because you want something, and you're bigger and meaner, it doesn't mean it's OK to just take it. Should Brazil take over its neighbors because it's the biggest country and the strongest army in South America?

I guess it's OK for China to start absorbing Vietnam and Korea and Singapore. And take Japan while they're at it?

You are professing an adherence to Might Makes Right, and just take by force. That would be a recipe for another round of world conflicts that would end in nuclear annihilation for everyone.

You can't really mean that. No one with any sense or recognition of right or wrong could actually espouse this nonsense.

You're either a paid troll farm bot, or a psychopath. There's no real middle ground here.