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If there was any real will left in EU people, Ukraine would wipe Russia off the map (at least the putinesque remnants), it will happen anyway, but we'd rather just expend vastly more money and vastly more humans and time in the process.

Considering the current rate of inflation, switching the EU economies to war production would save so much money and lives, and bring down prices.



War economies famously known for low inflation and wide availability of basic goods.


Keeping the war longer by a decade by not willing to hold your promise is vastly improves things, that’s for sure. Instead of showing the bully the force, be done with that pretty quickly and returning to your non-war economy pretty quickly. Ever considered that option, huh?


Russia has nuclear weapons and good means of delivering them all over the planet. That is a fact of reality that does not allow us to "be done with that pretty quickly".


There is not much evidence that Russia currently has working nuclear weapons, but we'd rather not find out the hard way.


Yeah, let these pesky Ukrainians to find out. This memorandum thing was a fake security promise anyway.


Good means are being …?




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