JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - RUSSIA'S INVASION OF AND ATTEMPT TO SUBJUGATE UKRAINE AND ITS PEOPLE. PART 7.

 

'War is not  a madness that leaders should force upon their people deceptively. 

fter all, what can be worse than demanding that your people should sacrifice their lives and livelihoods for a leader's delusions of grandeur, which is neither realisable, or, if it is, the realising of it is worse than the pre-existing reality?'

But without first considering how it/we are going to get back out of the river or hole, or what hazards might be in them. 

Now, we can understand and even appreciate how a people, a nation that has been attacked can or might seemingly make their first response an 'emotional one.' 

For example, respond with  great anger and a desire to inflict maximum damage on the aggressor, in their attempt to, first defend themselves, and, secondly, punish the aggressor. 

That is, as we might conclude, 'human nature', even though we can detect examples of it in other primates.

However, this is not a defence which those who were not the known target of the aggressor, or want to support the primary target, can use to defend their response strategies. 

This is because they have more time to consider how best to respond, and the likely or probable immediate, short-and-long-term implications and consequences of their response might be.

This being so, it is rather paradoxical that, in this war between the Ukraine and the West, on the one hand, and them and Russia, on the other hand.  

It is the Ukraine's government that appears to be taking the more considered approach, and the West which is taking the more 'emotional' approach. 

The Ukraine seems to be thinking post-conflict Ukraine, while the West is appearing to be more focus on doing everything it can to smash Russia.  

With little or no regard to the post-conflict world. Except thinking that 'Russia is no friend of ours and we do not want to do anything to accommodate Russia and its people.' 

To be continued!