Comment by avmich
> Sending money also increases the risk of nuclear war
In which way?
> Sending money also increases the risk of nuclear war
In which way?
> 1. Increase conflict between you and a nation with nuclear weapons
How? The nation with nuclear weapons probably understands that it will suffer a lot in a nuclear war, or will likely get hit with nuclear weapons itself, right?
> 2. Make nation with nuclear weapons more desperate
So what? It may be desperate, but can't use nuclear weapons because - see pt. 1. - it may think it will hit itself with nuclear weapons. Ok, maybe not even nuclear weapons - but that nation may also understand that it won't stand long against focused non-nuclear attack.
> 3. Make nation with nuclear weapons more angry
Nations, really, aren't people, saying they are angry is complicated. Maybe leaders will become more angry, but what could they do? Ok, even if everybody will get more angry, so what?
> If the point is to prevent nuclear war you must either prevent nukes or prevent war. This accomplishes neither.
You can't prevent nukes - they exist in the world - and can't even guarantee you can prevent war, but you should carefully estimate what bad and good consequences your actions will have. Is it better to try to stop an aggressor? What may happen if you do? What may happen if you don't?
> territory they literally had less than 20 years ago.
I don't see the relevance. Should we have Paris back to Germany? Manchuria, the Philippines, etc. to Japan?
> Everyone is now worse off because the land is filled with mines and thousands have been killed.
War is a horrible outcome, but the alternative - indefinite generations of subjegation, and risk of war and subjegation in additional countries - seems much worse.
>indefinite generations of subjugation
Simple leave the land. It's crazy to see the left so anti-property when it comes to domestic matters but then in this case they are more than willing to give up untold human life for some now worthless land-mind filled dirt. Why are Ukranian property rights worth the death of so many?
We can manufacture land if we want to, and we used to do just that. Much of Florida and SF.
1. Increase conflict between you and a nation with nuclear weapons
2. Make nation with nuclear weapons more desperate
3. Make nation with nuclear weapons more angry
If the point is to prevent nuclear war you must either prevent nukes or prevent war. This accomplishes neither.