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dutch777

(2,986 posts)
1. Probably. And pretty ticked at the West for giving aide and comfort to Ukraine.
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 05:13 PM
Mar 2022

Not to mention very effective weapons.

mopinko

(70,067 posts)
2. nato should wipe out their air defenses.
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 05:16 PM
Mar 2022

send as many fighters as it takes to disable their air force and their defensive batteries.

then leave the planes w ukr to fly at will.

speak easy

(9,219 posts)
4. Disabling their airborne and air defenses means striking at Russian territory itself.
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 05:52 PM
Mar 2022

If that is not a formal declaration of WWIII, I don't know what is.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
7. NATO is a defensive alliance, not a war machine. On whose authority would they act?
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 06:11 PM
Mar 2022

You are asking for war crimes.

erronis

(15,216 posts)
5. That's why he is sending them off to foreign killing fields. Fewer malcontents in the USSR.
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 05:56 PM
Mar 2022

This has been common in history. Create a battle and send the young men off to fight and not return.

Mothers and wives and children may mourn. But the regime doesn't have to worry about them.

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