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B402, Will NATO draw a red line for Putin? | Conflict Zone

Shy in the sense you have not produced any cogent articles in support of your position. That's what i said. And that's what you have twisted to bring it back again to yourself.

I've suggested you take the easy high road. You accepted the high road bit while denying yours was the easy path. Remember we are talking about there your position only. Your position which, as ours, has nothing to do with the actual progress of the external situation. Your position is the easy road, as i said, You are set. As some are set against abortion and against those with different sexual orientation. It's easy to be set, while others are struggling with conflict as to whether or not it would be best for the world to go to direct war with Putin,

You sit comfortably in front of your computer with no consideration, it seems, at all for further thought except to put guilt on all those who do not agree with you that direct war with Putin is the best option, at this stage.

Constanze Stelzenmüller is one of those who struggles. When you watch it you will at least agree with that. She, as you and i and most all except those running the shows, has no great direct influence on external events. Among the others, as Biden and NATO leaders, in positions holding responsibility for others, also struggle.

Their responsibilities lie in areas other than simply feel-good thoughts about self.

Will NATO draw a red line for Putin? | Conflict Zone

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“A predator like Russia … indiscriminately attacking civilians, that creates a degree of completely justified outrage amongst Western civil societies that then is very hard to resist,” says our guest, Constanze Stelzenmüller, a foreign policy and national security expert at the Brookings Institution.

“But ultimately, I think it would require a dire change of circumstances for NATO to contemplate direct war with Russia,” she went on to tell host Tim Sebastian, speaking from Washington.

“The only thing that can change Putin here, and can change Putin's own cost-benefit analysis, is his inner circle. Nobody else can and will.”

Stelzenmüller firmly rejected the accusation that the Western response to Russia’s invasion has been ‘appeasement,’ citing the severity of financial sanctions, and explained why she thinks Putin won’t win his war against Ukraine – though she admitted we are in uncharted waters.

“But we cannot answer this by going to war with him. Not now, not at this point.”

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Yesterday i offered the thought that direct military confrontation with Putin by NATO might even result in greater death
and destruction within Ukraine itself. You offhandedly rejected that thought. I'm not sure you are right on that either.

Yours is the easy road.