Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "'It's a dangerous moment': Ex-CIA director shares warning over Ukraine-Russia" video.

Mr Acosta gives a very well-balanced interview and former CIA Director Leon Panetta puts a very human face on his country's defense strategies. As an overseas viewer a few hours by air from the Ukranian border, this solution has come into my mind to resolve the Ukrainian sitution, the Taiwan issue and everything coming after it. We have to begin a new era in resolving international disputes. The weapons of war have reached critical levels of destruction that surpass anything before them. We should be the generation that hands our children's children new tools to solve the seemingly intractable conflicts that arise from time to time with competing countries. My solution for the Ukraine crisis is to ask President Zalensky to order his troops not to fire one bullet if Russia invades his country. His soldiers should lay down their arms and let the Russians take-over and set up their puppet government. From that moment on, all concerned countries begin countdown negotiations to have the invading country come to its senses and withdraw from Crimea and Ukraine and give them back their country. This might mean waiting until Putin and for that matter Xi (because let's face it, Xi and Putin are working in tandem) steps down from office or longer. It doesn't matter; time is on our side. No one needs to die because one person decides to own a trophy country for his or her legacy. Let it be known to rogue leaders who capture other lands and countries that their legacy will be tarnished, because the moment they are off the world stage, the stolen goods goes back to the rightful owners. We have gone as far as is humanly possible in warfare tactics. It is morally reprehensible to see the enormous civilian cost after these bloody and cruel incursions all because of one person's desire to fight to the last drop of the people whose country is being invaded, just to own more land for their expanding expires. We are a human community and no one should have to die by weapons of inhuman capapabilty just for a dispute that can be solved diplomatically and peacefully. This should be our legacy-gift to the people who will end this century confronted with the same usual suspects, but this time in peace. The children.
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@mimsyborogove3906 GGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Your analysis makes a lot of sense. What I keep trying to do is try to find ways to solve seemingly intractable problems and social phenomena by continullay reading, thinking, researching, and finally analyzing what I've come up. What I believe has to begin with our lot is to begin a new era of solving international disputes without the weapons of war. It means being patient and letting authoritarian leaders disappear from the scene and then negotiate their wrongs into rights. What we don't have on our side is how sociopaths and psychopaths who are charismatic can cast a spell using social media over enough people to keep them in power.
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@mimsyborogove3906 GGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. You're probably right. I'm no political analyst, but I know we've run out of bullets and bombs to solve international disputes. I know this goes against the grain of every military-minded person and it would be taking a chance not fighting back if Putin makes a move into the Ukraine. What my idea would do would be to save a generation from being anhilated and when those kids born today turn 40 they'd be alive and Putin would be history. If he went into Ukraine, the concerned countries would begin opening up discussions on how to get the Russians to see the light. The way I figure it is that we would win in the end, but it's true there might be a lot of years of people under occupation before Russia has to give back the booty. It's no easy call on how to win on the international scene. But we've got to hand diplomatic tools to our kids and not show them that when you can't get someone to do something, you bomb the hell out of them. Let's begin a new era in the human community, we've seen what the military solutions end up doing to people and countries.
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@donaldjeezytrump2435 GGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Is this former President Donald J. Trump's son? Mr Panetta explains things that average people can understand i.e. puts a human face on his country's strategies. He speaks government which is why everything he sas can be interpreted six ways from Sunday.
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