Comments by "dbergerac" (@dbergerac9632) on "Putin says Ukraine's future in doubt as cease-fires collapse, compares sanctions to 'declaring war'" video.

  1.  @tedbundy1769  No one does, not NATO, not the Russians; That is why NATO can do a no-fly zone. Even if Putin IS crazy, the REAL fingers on the physical buttons love their families and life. Nukes are only valuable to prevent an existential threat to their owners. No one is going to end the world over Ukraine. Putin depends on irrational fear.
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  2.  @sarabear7432  No one is going to end life on Earth over Ukraine. Don't be a patsy; Putin depends on it.
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  3. There seems to be a lot of that going around.
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  4.  @tomcollins5112  Eventually the loss of planes will cause a change in acceptance. Reality is a great teacher.
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  5.  @hotstinkytaco  We all risked our lives on wishful thinking every single day of the cold war. Rational people just do not end the world, and crazy people are watched carefully. See: Vasili Aleksandrovich Arkhipov; Also: Stanislav Petrov; the Norwegian rocket incident; Able Archer 83. I suspect, but will never know, that the US had some nuclear near misses during the Soviet Coup when we did not know which side had the power to launch or did both sides? But The US President made a TV appearance one night with a brief message to the American people, an oddly unimportant message considering that it broke into regular programing. What was unique about that appearance is that the officer carrying our nuclear "football" was standing at the president's elbow, something never done before or since. Some officers that I knew believed that he was sending a discrete message to Moscow. Russian pilots shot down our pilots in Vietnam, and we did the same. See: MIG Pilot by Lt. Belinko and nobody went nuclear. People have a determination to NOT murder the world. Survival instinct is not wishful thinking. When we invaded Iraq, if Russian planes had fought us for that air space, do YOU think that WE would have launched a first strike? When NATO sent planes against the Serbs did Russia respond with a first strike? They had gone to war in 1914 to protect Serbia. Nukes exist to protect nuclear powers from existential threats, they have no other real value. No one is going nuclear over Ukraine. When Russia comes for Poland it will be the same. Putin threatens, and NATO cowers. The appeasement response is how WW2 started.
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  6.  @tedbundy1769  See: Vasili Aleksandrovich Arkhipov
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