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David Warsh's avatar

Sounds like the world we had before.

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David Warsh's avatar

Good idea! What if the Russians were in Mexico?

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David Warsh's avatar

Taiwan is certainly the hard problem of the present day. Why not expect the Chinese on both sides of the water work it out themselves?

How do you "nail" Russia? Nukes? Sanctions don't seem to work.

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David Warsh's avatar

Thanks for this. Deaths from wounded are down to 3 from historic 10

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David Warsh's avatar

seems to be a question of the dominant actor: NATO/US in the case of Ukraine, Israel with respect to Gaza.

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Mary Fricker's avatar

Good point!

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Mary Fricker's avatar

First we have to negotiate respect for spheres of influence (for military operations, not for business operations which I think should be global). Then I hope we'd get worldwide support for sanctions when someone violates those spheres of influence.

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Mary Fricker's avatar

And, yes, if we accept spheres of influence, we'd have to have a limit for expanding NATO.

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Mary Fricker's avatar

Another possible fundamental causes of the Russo-Ukraine War is: We didn't nail Russia when it attacked Georgia in 2008 or Crimea in 2014. And how do we prevent trouble with Taiwan? Should we agree to turn Taiwan over to China in 50 years, like the UK and Hong Kong? The underlying strategy for all this would be: Accept spheres of influence and nail anyone who abuses them. Thoughts?

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Lou Fedorkow's avatar

question Ukraine/Russia being categorized as an American war. Wouldn't such logic add Israel/Palestine to the list?

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Bruce Larson's avatar

The sequence of wars and the loss of lives by U.S. enlisted people is thought provoking. Technological change seems to be playing a large role, as if more and better technology goes along with fewer deaths.

It made me return to and read a review in yesterday's Wall Street Journal entitled "Unit X: Taking Tech into Battle." This link, hopefully, will work: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/unit-x-review-taking-tech-into-battle-887ede00?st=5yhag5z5olh5h67&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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