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There are no guarantees in war but giving Ukraine sufficient advanced weapons to kill a few million more Russians would likely bring peace. Russian manpower reserves are deep but not unlimited. And even if that doesn't work it will at least weaken Russia enough to significantly reduce the threat to our NATO allies in Eastern Europe. Don't think that Russia will stop with conquering Ukraine. They'll keep advancing as long as they have the means.

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nightowl_games 8 hours ago | parent [-]

From what source do you base your certainty?

For example, Jeffrey Sachs has a very different opinion than you. From whom can I hear the steel man case for your statements?

	▲	nradov 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I claimed no certainty. As I stated above, nothing in war is certain. Jeffrey Sachs is just some guy. He has no more expertise in this area than I do so you can take whatever opinion you like.
	▲	AtlasBarfed 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Russia cannot issue a general conscription, their regime would collapse. You can see this because they are choosing mercenaries and ethnic conscription, and north Korean soldiers. Russia was already suffering a demographic cliff, this was effectively the last generation of men that could be thrown at a war. Russia is a racial hegemony of the Caucasian Rus ruling over central Asian ethnic 'stans. Think chechnya and Georgia at a minimum. So if too many Russians are conscripted and die, they cannot be used to keep the other provinces in line. The entire Russian state collapsed. Consider that each conscription round entails as much or more population flight from the country, do you raise 100,000 soldiers, 250,000 more flee the country. Jeffrey Sachs is an economist and he's been criticizing the war for the entire time , repeating points that I'm pretty clearly are direct Russian propaganda parroting, but fine one mans propaganda is another mans opinion. Putin has shown the usual authoritarian contempt for peace, treaty, and diplomacy. Negotiating a cease fire at this point is appeasement, "peace in our time" foolishness. Putin thinks Europe is weak and cowardly, and now he thinks the US is working in his interests and will not honor article 5 of NATO.