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A plea from Ukraine for a CAP: (Original Post)
Tomconroy
Mar 2022
OP
CAPs and NFZs don't work against mobile artillery but anti artillery radar and missiles do.
uponit7771
Mar 2022
#3
Moostache
(9,895 posts)1. Quote: "How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? "
How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror?
As long as the belief is that WWIII is imminent or even possible (with nukes) because of Putin.
The answer to this current situation is two-fold:
1) Kill Putin
2) Support Democracy EVERYWHERE (including here at home)
We cannot "win" a war with Putin if he goes to the nuclear arsenal in desperation, pique or spite.
We cannot enforce "no fly zones" without killing Russians and triggering a madman.
We cannot endure the images from Ukraine and the provocations from Russia forever...
So what CAN be done? Put a price on Putin's head - $10,000,000,000.00 to the man or woman who produces Putin's dead body for confirmation and immunity from prosecution for the act. There should MILLIONS of people attempting to find and kill that man right now. The fate of nations and the world hangs in the balance.
One man.
One, petulant child throwinig a fit because he once believed the best toys were his, and when that turned out to be false, he is hurt and having a temper tantrum about it....only instead of throwing his toys and stomping his feet he is hurling bombs and missles, threatening to use nukes and screaming while covering his ears.
If Putin was a child, I would advocate for corporal punishment - a good beating and a night with water and a daily vitamin only would be in order. He is not a child though, he is a madman and a lunatic and he has the capacity to destroy everything by giving an order.
Vladimir Putin must die and he must die sooner than later. He is unfit to wield the power that he does, he is unrestrained at a time when caution and restraint are MANDATORY and he must go.
Anything less than a plan to decapitate him from the Russian government is simply moving deck chairs on Titanic...
58Sunliner
(4,339 posts)2. It will come down to a calculated risk. Everything does.
I don't believe people will follow Putin's order for mutually assured annihilation. The fact that Putin mentions it as often as he does is a tell. He is a psychopath who is beginning to unravel. They know it too.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)3. CAPs and NFZs don't work against mobile artillery but anti artillery radar and missiles do.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,092 posts)4. +100. nt
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)5. Here's the Cognitive Bias wiki (link inside) and there are some unlocks for anchor bias is to be
... short and pithy as possible with retorts and keep repeating it.
Up hill battle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,092 posts)6. Thanks for the link,
I'll read it when I have a little bit of more down time, right now I'm just waiting for a dock to open so I can get my trailer unloaded.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)7. 👍🏾, Keep on truckin !!