Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "Ukraine's plan for victory" video.

@ayo8323 Anders does have areas in which he is the go to guy, but he cannot be an authority on everything.
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@Soupertrouper Thirty years ago Mearsheimer told Ukraine they would need their own nuclear weapons to deter Russia bullying.
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You mean Ukraine ignoring Mearsheimer's advice?
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I am sure Ukraine is right about its security requirements; it is far from obvious why Ukraine's agenda ought to be aligned with Nato's by Nato moving toward the Ukrainian position. Amping up the aid for Ukraine might make Russia back down, but it might not. Security guarantees for Ukraine at this point would be a step into the unknown because the issues have not been worked for decades in the way that the West overagaint Soviet confrontation along the Iron Curtain was. I would point out that the thinkers on both sides seemed to believe nuclear weapons were a deterrent to nuclear war, but Nato and the Warsaw Pact did not act as if they thought having nuclear weapons were a deterrent to conventional invasion and occupation.
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Does anyone?; the 'solution' Anders is talking about is a nightmare for the US. It would tie America down in Europe, and lead to it facing off against Russia in a nuclear sense. Anders needs to take East Asia into account, but people in Denmark don't seem to worry about such things.
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Maybe, but countries that lose wars also start new ones. Germany WW1 & 2 for example.
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@mrbrumby3409 First use against a nuclear armed country in a conventional war is the Rubicon that has never been crossed. America cannot support Ukraine while it quietly builds and uses a nuclear weapon on Russia and then act all shocked. whatever Anders may imply. Especially mow it is already being openly discussed on YT for goodness sake. There is also the point that Ukraine would suffer unlimited devastation if it used a nuclear weapon on Russia, and the Ukrainians who issued and obeyed such on order would have to answer for what they had done to their own countryman. and their families.
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Israelis did not like him comparing Ukrainians to Jews in WW2.
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@SuezWSuezW Israel is a jealous god. Meaning Ukraine can't get what Israel has by way of US support; there is not enough of it to go around. Ukraine wanted to become Poland, now it wants to be Israel. Which country next?
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@SuezWSuezW They would not be talking about it, except to say they would not dream of building one if one if they were building one. Russia has them too so it would be a Mexican standoff in a nuclear sense. IMO Zelensky is trying a ploy to get the US to increase i the quantity and quality of its conventional support.
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But Ukraine signed up to the international non proliferation convention and renounced them forever, so it would be in violation of its obligations were it to try and develop them.
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It is also a clear path for Russia coming into direct conflict with American forces, if Putin fails to act as Anders expects.
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@AfterTheIce-q4j It ought to have happened in 2007. The mistake was not following though.
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But until they have Nato membership and until they have a deliverable nuke, Russia would have the very best of motives to try and win the war by any means necessary
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I don't think the US wanted this; there were a long series of miscalculations by Russia and Ukraine that America was powerless to prevent.
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@rawnukles Not the issue. Ukraine is a signatory to the non proliferation convention and has agreed to renounce nuclear weapons forever. If Ukraine first used a nuclear weapon on Russia, then Russia would retaliate against America for Ukraine's first use, because America's hands would not be clean. It is on America if it supports Ukraine while it builds a nuclear weapon to use in a conventional war, because American intel will know if Ukraine starts building one.
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@yellowtunes2756 The problem for Ukraine was not being in Nato as a full member it was that the Russians knew they were trying to get into Nato and decided to forestall that possibility. Similarly, the problem for Ukraine is the Russians would destroy any facility capable of creating a nuclear weapon were they aware that Ukraine was actually trying to make a . nuclear weapon.
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He would know all about grabbing a country's resources.
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The path to getting Ukraine into Nato is like the process of building a nuclear weapon would be. The problem is Russia would decide to act while it could to forestall any such possibility.
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Lets say they did, do you think the Russians would only retaliate against Ukraine?
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