Ask HN: Would banning travel between Ukraine and Russia end the war?
Russia is a mostly flat country with very few natural barriers to invasion, such as mountains or large bodies of water. It has nine gaps through which other countries can invade. For Russia, this entire conflict is about halting NATO expansion and closing those gaps. For the United States, this conflict is about sticking to a long-held neoliberal&#x2F;neoconservative plan to replace all governments with Western-style democracies. Other goals include sending a message to China that any invasion of Taiwan would be repelled militarily. If this war goes well for Nuland, Sullivan, Biden, Tapper and company, the hope is to carve Russia up and make efficient use of its natural resources in the world&#x27;s first truly global empire.<p>The primary concern that I and many others have is that things will not go to plan. If the American public does not start paying attention to what&#x27;s going on, it is possible that the conflict there will escalate to a hot war that will engulf all of eastern Europe. If the West manages to win to the point of overpowering the Russians, they are likely to use nuclear weapons to rescue the situation. The likely response from the United States at that point will be to pull the plug on the entire war effort because the alternative then will be global thermonuclear ominicide. The result of this path is a total restructuring of Europe on an economic, political and military level. (Needless to say, this is not a desired outcome for comfortable elites who stand to lose a great deal from changes they have not anticipated.)<p>Please don&#x27;t downvote me; I am not a propagandist for any side. I am merely concerned about very real and immediate risks that the media is failing to report. I might be wrong, but the least you can do is to hear out an alternative view.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HBiV1h7Dm5E">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HBiV1h7Dm5E</a>