The word "detente" has been deliberately scrubbed from the western lexicon. This has created a false dichotomy where everyone thinks the only choices are either escalate until we have a nuclear war or "OMG SO JUST GIVE PUTIN WHATEVER HE WANTS AND LET HIM TAKE OVER EUROPE???"
Any time you oppose freakish world-threatening escalations that's the response you always get: "SO JUST GIVE IN TO THE BULLY AND LET HIM HAVE EVERYTHING???" They're sincerely unaware that there's a third choice between World War 3 and making Putin Emperor of Planet Earth.
This is by design, because detente and US unipolar hegemony are mutually exclusive. You can't let Russia be its own nation and also dominate the entire planet; it's either one or the other. Detente was a popular concept back when we lived in a *multipolar* world, during the USSR.
Now that US unipolar hegemony is the normalized mainstream consensus ideal within the western empire, any talk of working toward peaceful solutions that don't subjugate one power to the other show up before indoctrinated minds as outrageous heresy.
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