@alyx I dislike Ukraine more than I dislike Russia so
@icedquinn @beardalaxy
I'm strongly indifferent towards Ukraine. I don't hate them, I have no ill will towards them, but I'm not necessarily crazy about them either.
Still, I believe Russia's invasion is a great injustice that is being done to Ukraine. I think the morally right thing to do is to help them, but I don't believe just giving them money and our old weapons is actually helping them. Basically I think NATO should have either gone guns blazing with everything to scare the shit out of Putin, or shut the fuck up. I don't see how this half-assed approach is doing Ukraine any good. If someone did the numbers, I bet less people would have died if no one helped them and Putin managed to make them kneel in a week.
@icedquinn @beardalaxy
By that reasoning we shouldn't provide Ukraine with financial or weapon aid, but we do. There's no obligation, but NATO members could still have decided: "ok, we're stopping this" if they wanted to, just like they've decided: "we'll just give them some money and weapons so that no one can accuse us we didn't do anything".