Either Putin is an insane maniac ready to start a nuclear war or he’s a reasonable person ready to negotiate a peace deal in good faith. You can’t have it both ways. Strangely, the exact same people who shriek “don’t move or Russia will escalate” keep repeating “a peace deal now”.
This is one of many examples of how reason has been swapped for raging emotionality. People don’t even try to be consistent. They are proud of being all over the place and not burdened by logic.
Okay, here’s a clarification:
Putin or not insane, but he’s also not a nice person who negotiates in good faith. So he’s not going to start a nuclear war, but he’s also not going to honor any peace deal that doesn’t give him a major victory at Ukraine’s expense.
Got it now?
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You haven’t explored enough of the options! 🙂
Go ahead, try it on, see how it fits: “… an insane maniac ready to start a global peace or a reasonable person ready to negotiate a nuclear war in good faith.”
It’s not quite p -> q flipping to ~q -> ~p but it has a bizarre logic to it that seems closer to the truth?
Also: “don’t move and Russia will de-escalate” -> “a nuclear war now”?
I’m not doing this to talk about the existential truths of the situation.
I’m doing this to show that raging emotionality is just the pointy end of the stick that people use because they don’t want to expend the energy to figure out their hard-won opinions, and so it’s easier to conduct “point and shriek” campaigns.
(Also see methylethyl’s comment elsewhere on a similar subject, wherein my response if it manages to make it through the Dark Satanic WordPress Comment Factory is “people are pretty much constructed like that”.)
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