Go enlist in your military's combat arms and put your life where your mouth is. If you aren't personally willing to sacrifice yourself, why are you so eager condemn others to death or life changing injury?
I am not eager at all. I am not calling for aggression against any country. I have been ideologically opposed to much of the military action of the countries I resided in.
Are you not aware of death and life changing injuries mounting as you observe? Whose people and how many of them need to meet that fate until you think I may have a point hoping for an intervention?
I happen to think that a decisive, overwhelming and united military action against the forces of the aggressor may prevent a larger bloodshed. History seem to offer some evidence that backs that conclusion.
> I go to sleep every day hoping for Western/NATO military action against Russian military units in Ukraine.
You stated you want Western militaries to intervene, which is an act of aggression. If you’re not willing to join your local military in a combat role, don’t state you want them to get involved in a war. Unless you post proof of your rank and MOS (or equivalent) in a NATO military, it sounds like you’re a coward who wants others to die so that you can feel good about yourself and get good boy points on the internet.
I don’t hold military ranks, and I am not a particularly brave person. Quite the opposite - I often seek conflict resolution by trying to appeal to peoples better nature, find a compromise, and turn around and leave if I have to, to try another day.
But I don’t really see how hoping for military forces to protect innocent people who are being killed by an immoral aggressor and expressing these feeling publicly requires passing some sort of a bar of approval from you?
If you don’t mind, I think you and I have spoken for the last time on this subject.
Because you are willing to send other, much braver people to their deaths, so that you can feel good about helping people in a war in a country you don’t live in. You admit that you are not willing to put your own life on the line, yet you are willing to carelessly sacrifice the lives of your own countrymen without a second thought. If you want to help the innocent people of Ukraine, be willing to help them yourself. I suggest you read Starship Troopers as a light read to gain some more perspective and that you learn not to be a chickenhawk.
You are the “Fortunate Son” mocked in the famous song: someone privileged who advocates war knowing that they won’t ever be asked to pay a price.
