| Ka-pi96 said: Can't believe some of the stuff russia/russians are doing and saying now. They just seem so far detached from reality. |
War brings out the worst in people, doesn't matter which side. A badly planned war under false pretenses, going bad only makes things 10x worse. Nothing as dangerous as a cornered wounded animal, and humans are just that, reduced to their primal state in a war situation. When you strip away civilization humanity goes along with it.
Then you have the continuous propaganda / brain washing painting the 'enemy' as demons. Everything is stacked in favor of escalation instead of de-escalation. Humanity has a lot to learn on how to prevent and de-escalate wars like this. So far as a species we're still on the level of turning everything into a fight to the death (while destroying everything around) when overwhelming force doesn't put a quick end to confrontations.
When a volcano erupts people get evacuated, not send weapons to fire at the lava. A brain washed and tricked army send by a delusional leader with no way out is not much different from an unstoppable lava flow. You can direct the flow with great effort but you can't stop it. And if you don't get out of the way you get burned.
It's a terrible tragedy which only gets worse as it drag out. The people with any sense left have already deserted or sabotaged their own units. The crazy fanatics lead the charge and only get more frenzied the worse things go. Yes, they get more and more detached from reality. The human mind is very adaptable to accepting the worst as the 'new normal'. And thus things keep spiraling down.
At this point the only way to quickly end it is for NATO to send in an overwhelming liberation force. But that comes with severe risks with Putin still having access to nuclear weapons. I have no answers :/
Hopefully more and more people in Russia see through the propaganda and will demand an end to the war from within. It worked for the Vietnam war in the end, although it was mostly an out given to the government to capitulate rather then continue a hopeless war. Replace communists with Nazis and the US with Russia and the Vietnam war has a lot of similarities with the Ukraine
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/01/how-the-vietnam-war-really-ended.html
Maybe one day people will stop thinking around tribal lines :/ As long as we don't, people with bad intentions will continue to use tribal lines to push their agenda and stuff like this will continue to happen.
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