meanwhile we here in Poland have major 1939 vibes and not in a good way: treacherous invasion from the east while the west sits there and debates.

> while the west sits there and debates.

What's the west supposed to do ? Send NATO forces and start ww3 / a nuclear war ?

cut all exports to russia, throw them out of SWIFT, cut all gas/oil imports from russia

I would support all of these even if it cause inconvenience to me, but especially Germany wanna protect their business with Russia, so there is no way for real effective sanctions against Russia.

you don't need to fight with soldiers if you are rich enough

i agree. time to act was in 2008, 2014, 2015-16; basically until 2021.

same as 1930s. business as usual, protect our investments and companies and suddenly oh noes he has tanks at their borders, too bad, but he won't come for us, right? right...?

Callous words, written from the comfort of your armchair, behind the protection of your keyboard.

The invasion of Poland by Hitler was not the UK and France's "problem" either.

Assume the worst case with Putin. From Ukraine, Putin might attempt to annex* all other countries that belonged to the former Russian empire. In his recent speech, Putin lamented Russia's loss of the territory it had in 1916. He considers the whole former Russian empire to be his birthright. The man is extremely calculating, ambitious, and doesn't blunder easily. Look ahead.

* - Or establish a "hegemony", as opposed to a classic empire.

Except many of those are already NATO members, which is quite a different situation from Ukraine.

The invasion of Poland by Hitler actually was the UK and France's "problem", because they were bound by treaties to help Poland, exactly like the NATO countries are today bound by a treaty.

That is why UK and France were forced to declare war against Germany.

Unfortunately for them, after declaring war they did nothing, hoping for some miraculous solution without actual war.

Their inaction allowed the splitting of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union and then Hitler had plenty of time to prepare for the attack against France.

if your kids are on tiktok they will see footage from this war, turning on the news is not necessary

If your kids are on TikTok, unsupervised, they'll see partial nudity, suicide, and occasional live sex. There are whole user accounts dedicated to spreading these things. I quite TikTok after I clicked profile on an innocent video and watched a guy cut his own penis off.

Yea, its unconscionable to me that these platforms rely on end users to flag content, how does TikTok get away with it while YouTube is compelled to have a whole "Kids" section with no comments? They should not be allowed to exist, but then what would 15 year olds do for work? /s

my kids don't even have phone or tablet, so not sure when that expert came to conclusion my kids should watch any news