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The greatest danger to the world is not the environment or climate change. The greatest danger to the world is authoritarianism. The danger that the actions of a single man, or the extreme minority of a population, will ignite a nuclear war is far more dangerous than any other pending disaster. We now have authoritarian leaders in multiple countries who see that threats, or even outright military action, will cause democratic countries to back down and retreat.
Where does it stop
When will America, and the world, wake up to the fact that authoritarianism knows only the bounds imposed on it. Why does anyone think that Putin will stop when he has crushed Ukraine and imposed his dictatorship on it. Why would Kim un-Jung stop his nuclear missile development? They know we are afraid of them. They know all they have to do is to threaten to use nuclear weapons and we will cower before them. I have said it before and I say it again. What is the reason to have the world’s most expensive and powerful military if we refuse to use it to stop naked aggression that isl never going to stop as long as it is tolerated?
Over and over, we hear news commentators and retired military generals tell us how we cannot afford to stand up to Putin. This is nuts. Putin is going to keep backing us up because we are letting him. We are not stopping a war. We are just letting Putin win it a bit at a time. In reality we cannot afford not to stand up to authoritarianism. The authoritarian leaders around the world have seen that democracies will not stand up to them if they threaten the lives of the innocent or threaten the use nuclear power.
This will never stop until democracies stand to the threats. We must declare Kyiv a ‘free city’ and use ANY force needed to enforce that declaration. Putin will use whatever force he needs to destroy all resistance and to take control of the city. Putin will not stop at Ukraine or anywhere else until force, internally or externally, is used to stop him. This can be said of any authoritarian leader who exercises total power over a country.
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