RE: spineless25 Feb 2022 11:49
TBH they haven't sold them down the river, they aren't in NATO, they aren't in any kind of alliance with the West either.
It's desperately sad that Putin has done this but if we get involved on the ground with missiles and bullets we are all dead sooner or later. We don't want World War Three because it will be the last war in human history. Getting involved in someone elses war has never ended well, look at the turn for the worse the world got when Bush senior and Blair decided to mess with Middle Eastern affairs, the genie won't go back in the bottle there and it certainly won't with Russia.
The West will sabre rattle and Putin will take over the rest of the Ukraine and that will be that.
Putin wants to make his mark on history and the West know he's just mad enough to go nuclear if he's pushed.
The big problem is where he looks to next and I'm afraid it's all the other former Soviet states that became part of Europe.
Glasnost is dead and buried but business is business and it will carry on regardless of sanctions.