The Economist asks and answers the big question 🙋🏻♂️ and by doing so, it squashes the already weak arguments of putin-sponsored pacifists and the western fiscal-conservatives-minted-in-the-kremlin economist.com/leaders/2023/0… via @TheEconomist 1/5
“As the war enters its second year, some ask whether Ukraine is worth all this effort. Isn’t the cost-of-living crisis more urgent? Or climate change? Imagine if the money spent on weapons could finance development instead.” 2/5
“It is right to regret the war, but unwise simply to wish away Mr Putin’s aggression. A Russian victory in Ukraine would frog-march the world down a bleak path where might is right and frontiers are drawn by violence.” 3/5
“It may hasten the next, even worse, confrontation in Europe. And it would deepen a widespread sense that Western power, and the universal values it sustains, are in steep decline.” -@TheEconomist
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To which I add: anything less than a definitive defeat for russia means doubling, tripling or quadrupling of defense budgets everywhere. There will be no money left for the priorities Putinverstehers are so concerned with if the Free World fails to #ArmUkraineNow
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Written a short thread on this a while back…
https://twitter.com/ChakhoyanAndrew/status/1580638641961197568
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