Comment by aeternum
It's quite foolish to risk a nuclear war to prevent a country from taking territory they literally had less than 20 years ago.
Everyone is now worse off because the land is filled with mines and thousands have been killed. China and Russia
> 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.