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Cuillin wrote:

I am a proud pacifist, and I think war is a scourge on our planet. At first I was of the view that we in the west should be bolstering our NATO allies, and sending supplies to Ukraine etc.

My view has now changed. I think we now need to stop Putin with whatever means are necessary, and if that means war then so be it. He is never going to be satisfied with Ukraine, and he is already threatening Sweden and Finland. People always say references to Hitler are not relevant, but the west sat back when he took Czechoslovakia. I don't think we should wait for whatever country is our modern day Poland.

Liberal democracy and freedom from tyranny needs to be defended.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/26/valdimir-putin-russia-ukraine-inside-his-head

You see I must disagree. Do you want WWIII? I mean, it would be truly a shame to just end our species via nuclear war after how far we've come. Has humanity destroyed the environment? Yes. Are we going to go extinct if we don't try and stop climate change in the next few years? Yes. But does that mean we should kill our planet with nuclear bombs just because an old man who's probably going a little senile decided to invade a neighbouring country? No, certainly not.

Even if we do deserve to go extinct, it shouldn't be because we irradiated the planet and caused a 6th mass extinction event. We should try and help Ukraine as much as possible but getting NATO formally involved will not only result in thousands, probably millions losing their lives but also the sparking of another militaristic, nationalist age that will be extremely difficult to come out of. Trying to fix war with war will only result in more war, not peace.