ta20240528 2 days ago

Yip, it was he who wimped out of the USA's obligations (stated and inferred) in the Budapest Declaration when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014.

It's actually hard for a nation with 14 aircraft carriers to stuff-up this badly.

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decafninja 2 days ago | parent [-]

It’s the same problem today as it was then. It is actually hard if you’re a democracy answerable to your people.

Are you willing to bet even a 1% chance to trade Los Angeles for Vladivostok? Warsaw for St. Petersburg? Because Putin is certainly willing to play chicken. Obama, Biden and (maybe?) even Trump are not.

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ta20240528 a day ago | parent [-]

Then expect a world full of nuclear armed, partially failing authoritarian countries.

	▲	decafninja a day ago \| parent [-]
		At minimum I fully expect South Korea to go nuclear in the near future. I wouldn’t be surprised if Japan follows.