Z nasiljem ali tanki ni mogoče prepričati drugega (partnerja, države) v sobivanje ali celo naklonjenost. Nasilje in tanki so zgolj obupan odraz intelektualne nemoči. In sila rodi zgolj popolni odpor pri nasprotni strani. In zato bi tragična izkušnja nekdanje Sovjetske zveze v 20. stoletju z vsemi državami, ki jih je s silo podjarmila, morala biti dovolj, da bi Putina prepričala, da vdor Moskve v življenja sosedov le-teh ne bo približal Rusiji, ampak jih bo za vedno odgnal stran od Rusije. Spodaj je dober tekst v ruski Meduzi na to temo.
The popular saying holds that war is the continuation of politics by other means. Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz formulated this idea in the early nineteenth century. However, in the modern world — which has been through two world wars and had the monstrous experience of the use of nuclear weapons, — war isn’t a continuation of politics, it’s evidence of their complete failure. In our case, it’s evidence that Russia’s leadership, having committed to a military invasion of Ukraine, failed to meet the challenges it set for itself. Whatever they may have been.

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