That's fair,but I think being a bit shook by how the version of you,but through a mirror,darkly that you were supposed to debate in two week's time was just instantly merced in public is also fair
One thing is for sure, I'm glad I'm not in his position right now lmao, he has to make some tough choices regardless of how likely or unlikely that threat is to materialize, as you saw with this piece of shit,one lucky shot is all it takes
Hell, we've had a lost drone falling near a small ammo depot or cashe about 20 or so kms away from the border and it was a small news story that passed quickly (Romania)
Only significant difference here seems to be the number of drones that entered the airspace,so I don't get why people are hyping this small nothingburger up
It'll be the usual "shoot down the object that entered their airspace, next day call Russia a big meany bobeany and then we go back to regular programming"
When I say diplomacy I don't mean UN vote on saying Israel is doing crimes that doesn't do anything,I mean Khrushchev Kennedy nuclear hotline. You know,so that we don't reenact 99 luftbaloons?
And you really wanna gamble on nukes not being used in that scenario? Really? You know this is the fate of human civilization you're talking about,not trying to grow leftism in the US,right? The stakes are bit higher than you would seem to think. And how do you know the people next in line with their finger on the button are capitalist cowards? What if the people who can launch nukes are more hardline nationalists?
Also,I hate to bust out the Yankee card,but you seem to suffer from American exceptionalism, because the reason the US hasn't gotten pushback on its own soil wasn't that it was unbeatable, but that,until recently,it picked on soft targets. No matter how rotted by neoliberalism you may think Russia is, if you push them too far,they will retaliate in kind.