The question is, what would make Putin feel secure?Herainestold wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 10:31 pmIf you can make Putin feel secure, Ukraine and all of Europe is better off. Instead of constantly threatening Russia, the West should look at what make Russia feel secure. Not necessarily happy but at least not threatened.Of course whether or not we believe that NATO poses an objective threat, Russia might nonetheless feel threatened. Security combines a physical condition with a state of mind. Dictionary definitions of security refer on the one hand to being ‘the activities involved in protecting a country, building or person against attack, danger, etc.’ and on the other to ‘the state of feeling happy and safe from danger or worry’. Threats to a state are interpreted by those in charge and they decide how happy and safe a country should feel. The more authoritarian the system the more the issue becomes one of what makes the supreme leader insecure, which might be anything that threatens their personal position. If supreme leaders are paranoid, as they often are, this adds to what might prompt a feeling of insecurity. The desire of dictators to be left alone to do their dictating as they wish is why they cling to the principle of ‘non-interference in internal affairs’ as a vital principle in international affairs.
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If we gave Russia all of Ukraine, and he took Belarus, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, giving him a western ring of buffer states, he'd only want more.
He's already invaded Georgia, and would want Armenia, Azerbaijan, and probably most of the 'Stans back.
Then he'd want Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, all of the old Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and half of Germany.
Do we then let him roll into Turkey? Greece? Austria? Switzerland? Italy? Finland? France?
When would he feel safe and secure? With the keys to Downing Street, or maybe the White House?
The truth is that Putin will never feel secure; and giving in to him only feeds his paranoia and god-complex. He needs to be beaten and humiliated, as quickly as possible, to end the suffering of the people under his control. Stop trying to pander to him.