Pyrpolizer wrote:See you finally commented.
Although for the highlighted part, your analysis a few days ago was much more worthy.
We heard you, like we heard GR.
For me the most important issue is why the two sides are willing to risk it.
I can understand why Russia is willing to risk it, but why the Anglo-Saxon axis and it's vassal States in the EU are willing to risk it?
Please don't give me the bullshit about sovereignty, liberty, human rights etc, that they themselves violated a million times all over the world.
So what's the REAL reason?
Catching up.
It's impossible to have rational exchanges with GR. His primary response towards anybody who has a difference of opinion is bullyboy ridicule. So be it. Quid pro quo it becomes. Even that deteriorates to the level of the absurd when he's clearly drunk.
Moving on.
I'm not sure what you mean by the West "risking it". Putin's played the nuclear card since the beginning of this war. He loudly pronounced putting Russia's strategic forces on a "high state of alert" the first weekend. Something most would tend to keep stum about. Those who most importantly need to know would be aware anyway. Since, we've had regular "hints" from high Russian officials, or the great man himself, about their willingness to use nuclear weapons.
AFAIK there's been no such rhetoric from the West. Although, it seems the issue of "Western nuclear blackmail" has been played regularly on Russian State Media. Speaking of which, there's been no such reticence on their part, where they've tended to regularly talk about such things as the obliteration of the UK/London with Russian Wunderwaffe. None of that gets transmitted without the Kremlin's approval of course.
So, what are we looking at? It comes across to me as desperation. I regard Putin as the school bully boy - give me what I want or I'll hurt you. The answer to that of course is......................
Ultimately it comes down to whether the man feels sufficiently desperate to use nuclear weapons. That of course is the problem with dictators. We don't seem to have learned anything in that respect.
I'd be interested in your view and opinion on where I perhaps have it wrong.
My fundamental concern I think remains valid. Despite GR's repeated exhortations that the solution to this "problem" is the obliteration of hundreds of millions by nuclear fire, to me the man's clearly a lunatic and............................ I simply don't understand why the more rational members of this forum, despite their allegiances, don't say so. You never know, he might actually STFU on the issue. Or even - Heaven forbid - modify his psychotic views in the light of other, more sensible members, opinions.
Whatever the groupthink is, it seems to me that silence tends to imply implicit approval of his oft repeated Armageddon rants.