Is It Ok, We're Not Going to Do Anything?

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I wonder if this r r response goes back to the 20 14 annexation of crimea, where a, oh, bama said, you know, that was really bad, and then didn't do anything. And so i guess maybe the attitude now is, well, we'd better do something, because that just encourages him even more. So we're just going to draw the line in the sand, and this time we're going to stick to that line. That probably asomthing a da bom at the time did say,. there's people in this town, amon usti groups to stop the take over. O crimea and so forth, to raise your hand. There

In this conversation with the renowned Ohio State University political scientist John Mueller, author of The Stupidity of War, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War, and The Remnants of War, we discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and what we might expect from Putin’s Russia in the coming weeks, months, and years, along with Dr. Mueller’s outline for how to end the current conflict and compromise with Putin. That seems unlikely at this point, but the prospects of the tragedy of millions of war refugees pouring out of Ukraine into neighboring nations, along with the number killed already and likely to be killed as the fighting escalates, why not give negotiation and compromise a chance? Read John Mueller’s op-ed that accompanies this episode.