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You may want to look up the Sudeten crisis/Munich agreement and how effective it was at preventing war.
Ok, I give up. I've been down voted to hell and told repeatedly by multiple people that I'm an idiot or a coward or a Russian bot for wanting a peaceful resolution to the conflict, so I'm going to defer to the expertise of all these people and concede the point. It's not like my opinion was going to change anything anyway.
Peaceful resolution is not only the easiest thing in the word, it is 100% Russia's choice....stop invading and go back home and try to make yourself a productive member of the world...start with your own suffering people.Russia was old news and no one cared before the invasions. If you are always treated like the bad guy, you have to put a lot of effort in to selflessly prove you aren't and the world will take notice....or invade and get shit on and be the villain everyone said you are...
It's not the world's call here. Debate the people that actually can change this situation.
That's the hivemind for you. Personally I don't think you deserve downvotes for these comments and I don't think you are a Russian shill. I replied to you because I understand where you're coming from, and I was trying to get you to see things the way I see them : I actually held the same opinion when Russia annexed Crimea by force in 2014 even though people were already screaming that it was basically Hitler's playbook. But the fact that Putin didn't take that easy, huge W when basically the entire world went for appeasement, and instead decided to keep escalating convinced me that he is actually literally applying Hitler's playbook (and backing it with mutually assured destruction, of all things).
I've been thinking about it, and I think I understand why many people have such strong reactions to the situation. Russia did illegally invade a sovereign nation, without provocation. They have killed thousands of innocent people and they have done incredible harm. It's abhorrent. Any such unjustified invasion (like the US invasion is Iraq, for instance) is abhorrent. I suppose some people view my attempts to dispassionately look for peaceful solutions to the conflict as a kind of tacit support for Russia, or at least indifference. I am not indifferent, and I certainly don't support their illegal and immoral actions, I just don't want anything that could lead to more war, or more widespread war. However, as you've said, Russia has likely left the rest of the world with few other choices.
Good on you for trying. I gave up a while ago. A consensus has formed, at least on here and on most of the English-speaking internet and lines have been drawn. Contrary opinions are rarely tolerated. Thankfully the rest of the world isn’t as gung-ho on isolating Russia and is actually helping restore some balance, because at the end of the day whether Ukraine is a NATO country or a Russian protectorate in ten years time matters little in the grand scheme of things.
What matters more is that the global pecking order between great powers is disturbed and this will likely lead to frequent local and perhaps generalized conflict in the future. It would be helpful for more countries to remain neutral, so as to help maintain balance and independence, while limiting the reach of great powers, but under such intense competition for global dominance most countries have to pick a sponsor for better or worse. And Ukraine’s leadership has chosen NATO, naturally. Whether they could have remained neutral or not is for historians to debate. Right now, as the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Do the US, Russia, and China have to be enemies? Yes, unfortunately they do. They have competing interests and the decline of the US is leaving space open for others. Hence also the focus on getting Europe more heavily militarized again. So that it can hold its own in the uncertain times to come. That is my understanding.
I've learned my lesson, I'm not commenting on anything related to Russia, Ukraine, or NATO again. These people are...passionate, and they are not interested in hearing opinions that run counter to their own.