Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
Handy
I don't see anyone saying that you are wrong in what has happened, and what vladdy has done. The question is how to get rid of him without starting a nuclear exchange *anywhere*- let alone a full blown WWIII exchange that ends the world. Do you trust the military leaders to do the right thing and NOT start a nuclear battle? Given that they are the ones directing the shooting, I can't really trust them. It's the ground troops that are the ones running the slow down, not the leaders.
So if you have a plan to stop this without further escalation, what would that be? Right now, bleeding the russian effort dry seems to be the most effective way of doing that. Even if vlad comes out at the top, he will be pretty scaled back.
The whole point is it isnt up to us to remove him...it is up to the people there. We are doing our part...but part of that is motivating the people in the region to rise up which is what Zelensky has been doing and what Biden is advocating. We keep cutting them off from supplies and money and The Ukraine keeps fighting. As you say, bleed him dry. But we need to ratchet up the rhetoric too.
You seem to think I want some sort of intervention into the War by The West...I don't. All I want is for the leaders to finally just call a spade a spade. Stop worrying about offending a madman he will invent reasons to be offended anyways. Time for the West to remind the people of Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, Crimea...etc. that if they want all this to end there is really only one way for them (again them not us) to do it.
What Biden said (with or without the clarification) escalates nothing.