I immediately write off anyone who is unable to change their mind as a moron who is not worth my time. Absolutely ridiculous that people would consider that a character flaw.
It's the continual age old battle between traditionalism and progressivism. People hate change and reflexively reject it because it's more comfortable. But we live in an age of drastic change happening at an exponential level with each new technological advance, which in itself is changing at an exponential level.
When you have a CVS receipt length list of war crimes already, sanctioned to the extreme, and happy to bleed your already collapsing population.... What's one more thing?
I see some value to it: bleeding an army out until they essentially do not have one to do these types of actions for another 20 years and forcing the population's hand in making change in their governing systems being the biggest. I'd love to see the data set our government is working with guiding our decision making. Maybe they think if we give Ukraine all they need to take over their territory too quickly, Putin could regroup in some way. Or maybe this buys time for the rest of Europe to ramp up production of their military.
:shrug:
Someone talk me down. I'm in Utrecht, Netherlands for a few weeks and went walking around to find some shops that my family will need to know where they are at. Stopped at a bottle shop and they had Fortaleza Reposado for $90. I know that is a jump in price as the states.....if you can find it.
Also, very small selection of Mezcal but they have it
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I think this allows any territories that don't want to be under Putin's thumb to do their thing. That culture respects strong men and Putin is not looking strong at all in this and families are not wanting to lose more of their men for a lost cause. Even if Wagner doesn't take over Moscow, this is a huge inflection point that signals to all that Putin cannot control the situation.