A nation is not an individual. Very poor analogy. Russia and Ukraine are dictatorships locked in a struggle over borders, and territory. It is a war in which thousands are dying, including children. Anyone with any humanity wants that to be stopped, even at the price of abandoning an absolutist position based on fairness.
I'm not saying that Ukraine will have to give all of its territory to Russia.
But Ukraine will be faced with a choice if a strong leader of the United States sits them down to negotiate. They can give up something to throw Putin a bone and give him a face-saving way to stop killing Ukrainians, or they can watch more Ukrainians die in a doomed-to-failure attempt to drive Russia home empty-handed.
When I say "Ukraine," I mean that it is Zelensky who will be faced with that choice. Sadly, I believe that Zelensky will choose the second option, so long as he is being adored by Americans on both sides of the isle who do not know the difference between private property and national boundaries.
Ukraine may, probably will, fall. But make no mistake. Russia wants it all. Every square centimeter of Ukraine.
It isn’t a bad analogy. It is a micro version of the macro we are talking about. An invasion is a robbery writ large. People using force to take something that is not theirs to take. Yes that is a little simplistic. But that is what is going on.
Armed thugs coming to take what isn’t theirs. It doesn’t matter if you are a kid in school where the bully wants your lunch money, or a leader of your people. Thugs taking what is yours sits wrong.
It is interesting that you want the President to sit them down and make them accept it. That’s happened in history. See Czechoslovakia. Britain and France gave it away to Germany. To get peace in our time.
Peace that was rather short lived.
As for suspending elections. It’s kind of hard to hold an organized election while bombs are falling in your cities. I can’t think of a single nation that has done that. Everyone has held off on elections until the war was over. In Britain, Churchill was voted out almost the minute the war was over.
It doesn’t matter if we are talking about your property line, the boundary of some criminal gangs territory, the borders between counties, or states. Nobody willingly gives up their territory, their land, without s fight.
Even here in the US states fought out where exactly the boundary was for years in court. Texas and Oklahoma have been to the Supreme Court more than once arguing about borders.
You and others argue that we have no business in this dispute. In other threads you lionize Rittenhouse. He was in another state from his. With a weapon he never should have had. Doing what nobody asked him to do. Yet he is a hero for standing up to thugs while Ukraine should be curb stomped by Russia because. Um. Something I’m sure.
