alt Hacker NewsIt's a classic short-term vs long-term tradeoff. Letting Russia get away with an invasion of Ukraine decreases the risk of a nuclear war in the next couple of years but increases it in the following decades. I personally believe the long-term thinkers have the better argument
It's not long vs short term. It's money and conquest vs peace and compromise.
The "long term" vision you're proposing is a decades long entrenched conflict with multiple nuclear states. Literally every single foreign policy disaster of the past 40 years has been orchestrated by following this exact playbook, by the exact same people.
The "long term" vision I propose is normalizing relation with these nuclear states and we do business with them all without telling everyone how to live.
This is actually how long term peace is achieved. We shouldn't be the world's policeman. We do much better as the world's businessman.