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Originally Posted by Sticks
You and bitontheslide Misrepresent my position.
Ghandi once said "An eye for an eye only makes everyone blind"
From my experience, not every bully can be stood up to. Some have to be acquiesced to because they are too powerful and are willing and able to take extreme action.
Putin is one such person, given his KGB connections, which I said from the get go.
There has been a tremendous loss of life as the "plucky" Ukrainians put up a fight. This only aggravated the situation and escalated things. Something, with some people, you do not do. It seems many here have ignored the wisdom of Ghandi, a man who threw off the British and led India to independence, so he must have known what he was talking about.
As for arista near the beginning of this, I am certain that the Ukrainian president did issue the order not to surrender to the troops. I am an amateur historian, so I pointed out that Hitler did the same thing regarding the issuing of orders. That is just historical fact. They may not be the same people, but it seemed that they did exactly the thing, regarding the issuing of orders.
If Zelensky had taken the American offer to leave for the west and the troops surrendered, there may not have been so much bloodshed here.
Violence only breeds more violence.
Ghandi knew that, and his passive non violent ways bore fruit.
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And had people not fought back against Hitler and Nazi Germany, where would we be today? What are the Ukrainians meant to do? If they had surrendered easily and Putin then turned his attention to other non Nato countries and then eventually the rest of Europe as his troop numbers grow..were they all to surrender too until a New World Order is established and Putin rules all? What kind of world would our children and grandchildren have to look forward to then?