Comments by "Henriikka K" (@henriikkak2091) on "Fearing West Expectations vs Ukrainian Reality | Red Lines" video.

  1. Whoa, that was candid. There was some black humor there but I suspect that Rick and Jonathan were being serious because I'm close enough to the situation to have arrived at the same conclusion. It's interesting to see where this leaves NATO countries like Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and maybe the rest of the Nordics too. Jessica Berlin suggested in an interview with Philip Ittner recently that there might be a coalition of the willing in NATO that's going to have to take a more active role in guaranteeing their own safety, for example by closing the skies at the Russian border and maybe also over Western Ukraine. We're not there yet, but I do observe that the US policy is not aligned with Ukraine's interests so this might be the direction we're headed (or being pushed) too. In no uncertain terms, we need Ukraine to win and Russia to lose. There's a cost to not acting quickly and decisively enough. Ukraine is paying for it for the moment, but I feel that emboldening autocrats by sending them a message that you can act with impunity if you have nukes, is a bad idea with worse, far-reaching consequences. There's no easy way out of the dilemma Russia has created. Those who think there are, are deluded. Stopping Russia in its tracks seems less escalatory than to allow it to carry on with the path it's currently on.
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