Are Americans willing to keep the nuclear threat high so they can engage Russia in a proxy war in Ukraine?

Flawed premise and conclusion. The facts speak clearly. NATO hasn't been very aggressive and most failed to meet military spending targeta for decades under the treaty... until Russia attacked Ukraine. NATO was a response to the cost of appeasement prior to ww II.

To appease Russia now would be a grave miscalculation. I was not in love with Ukraine's policies before to be sure, but Putin's adventurism cannot be rewarded without being complicit and encouraging Russia. China is also gauging if the World would challenge it.

As a world we SHOULD be addressing the Existential implications of climate change. If we get to 3 C+, we as a world will suffer greatly. We get to 5c avg temp increase. mid latitudes will be uninhabitable by most current species...Good news is other species will evolve... Humes wont be in those areas without significant technology.

Most people in the United States understand the way to ensure there is no nuclear war is to have an offensive nuclear capability equal to any power in the world. Assured mutual destruction stops the use of nuclear weapons.

Sadly this is nothing new.

I read a paper by an economist who suggested that the spending on credit boom of the 80s was originally fueled by people thinking the nukes would launch before the VISA bill showed up. When it didn't this just became the new normal.

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Russian 🐻 may have a few surprises in store for the US, including a tag team with China 🐉 for a one-two punch.
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