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Western support for Ukraine as it defends against Russia has globally significant consequences, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday, urging Kyiv’s backers to remain steadfast.

“It is about making sure that Russia is not able legally to forcefully shift the borders in Europe,” Duda told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview from the United Nations headquarters in New York.

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[-] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

This is exactly what I don't understand about people who want peace in Ukraine as soon as possible and at all costs: capitulation for the sake of short-term peace endangers long-term peace.

If we globally set the precedent that you can invade whomever you want and win just because you have nukes, that makes for a vastly more dangerous world. Every country with nukes will suddenly be more willing to go all imperialist, and all the countries without nukes will want to have them as a guarantee against invasion. And I don't know about y'all, but a world with way more nukes in way more hands is way more dangerous.

Plus, Putin has shown he'll keep on invading neighbors so long as he can get away with it. Delivering a crushing defeat to Russia and specifically Putin is the only way to achieve a more lasting peace.

[-] ned4cyb@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

If that was the case Putin would not be right now in defensive position, he would be marching towards the polish border indtead

[-] severien@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

He would love to, but he just can't, at the moment.

[-] ned4cyb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

He has 300.000 reserves in Russia that he has never used on the ground

[-] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Were they the ones driving the garbage trucks and tractors that ripped up the roads when Prigozhin matched on Moscow?

[-] ned4cyb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

They are the ones that deter Poland and US to throw their men on the ground

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