Another option for #4 is supplying enough long range anti-ship rockets to sink whole russian fleet in black sea. They can't bring in more ships, because turkey is blocking the entrance.
Triggering world war 3 would also help reduce the population which could reduce co2 emissions and food requirements. Killing a few birds with one stone.
That's not much different than supplying other kinds of weapons (and anti-ship missiles are on the list anyway, if not from US then from UK).
Also everybody is mostly over nuclear threat I think. When a nuclear country keeps annexing land and threatens you with nukes if you object, you have two options -- keep giving up or call the bluff (or assassinate the leadership I guess).
We are talking about a country that can’t even supply proper boots to its troops. Why believe that the nuclear weapons they inherited from USSR still work?
Ukraine doesn't have much of a merchant fleet. Most of their exports travel on foreign bottoms. And foreign ship owners are unwilling to risk entering an active conflict zone, especially because they can't obtain affordable insurance.
we can play this game all day long, but the past 2 months have clearly shown that russian conventional forces are not even close to a match for NATO combined forces*
* as long as the goal isn't to slaughter as many civilians as possible, which for russia is a strong assumption
postalrat|3 years ago
UnFleshedOne|3 years ago
Also everybody is mostly over nuclear threat I think. When a nuclear country keeps annexing land and threatens you with nukes if you object, you have two options -- keep giving up or call the bluff (or assassinate the leadership I guess).
spywaregorilla|3 years ago
If the US sends a merchant ship and a cruiser, what is russia going to do exactly? Try to bomb the ships? They will lose, and get shot down.
Why would it suddenly be WWIII? Is russia really going to say "Well, they shot down our plane so its global thermonuclear war time".
trasz|3 years ago
chrsig|3 years ago
axiosgunnar|3 years ago
And fyi, whatever arrangement of characters your reply to this statement will consist of, it will not change my stance, so do not bother.
paganel|3 years ago
nradov|3 years ago
ImPostingOnHN|3 years ago
we can play this game all day long, but the past 2 months have clearly shown that russian conventional forces are not even close to a match for NATO combined forces*
* as long as the goal isn't to slaughter as many civilians as possible, which for russia is a strong assumption
unknown|3 years ago
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