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What would you do if you were the leader of Ukraine?

What would you do if you were the leader of Ukraine now?

  • Fight

    Votes: 4 30.8%
  • Flee

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Capitulate

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • Stick it out

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • Other

    Votes: 2 15.4%

  • Total voters
    13
  • Poll closed .
The odds of this are so low it is not even worth considering.

If they tried it, they would instantly become an international pariah, and I expect both Russia and NATO would assist in their destruction.

Destroy who? Mow down millions of Ukrainian refugees? It is not something "tried." Once the cooling system and power to a nuclear power plant is damages it WILL meltdown. No power on earth can stop it. Blowing storage tanks is something any Iraqi civilian could do with an ordinary iron bomb. So could the Ukraine military.

Destroy who? What good would that do? I have no doubt that Russia and NATO would go ape-**** crazy. But, the reality is they would understand there is nothing they could do to prevent it. And it within the rules of war.

A country can use nuclear weapons if its survival is at stake. It is just a different form of nuclear weapons.

Might be hard to get Russian and NATO troops to march into irradiated land. If so, then it is a suicide mission and they basically kill themselves. Don't need any soldiers to kill an army being marched to its death.

It would hit Europe nearly as hard as Russia. Depending on wind, the least hit actually could be central Ukraine for where the reactors are located.
 
I can, because this is what NATO was made for in the first place. Standing in place over it's members to ensure the Soviets (now Russians) did not invade them.

Russia is not stupid enough to risk a conflict with NATO. They were not that foolish when they were the Soviet Union, and they are nowhere near that powerful today. And the political backlash from most of the world would be devastating.


It is important to understand at least half of the members of this forum have ONE singular foreign and military policy: "RUN AWAY! HIDE!"

Putin and the rest of the world understands the USA is becoming the land of cowards, so the chaos will continue to grow around the world. Most of the America "Great Generation" have died or on their death bed. Once again, cowards and appeasers have taken control. Which means, of course, tens of millions of people are going to die and billions enslaved.
 
Buy nukes. Any contractual concessions to that effect could always be reneged upon later, having secured sovereignty. In light of the circumstances, I don't believe any measure of perfidy is dirty pool.
 
Clearly, with their country invaded, their navy seized or destroyed, and chaos growing, the leader of Ukraine could declare martial law and combined with being commander of the military take any action. Assume you had total power to make all decisions, what would you do?

Fight Russia with everything you got. If so, how?

Capitulate. Realize there is no way to win and turn all of Ukraine over to Russia to spare lives, conceding all Ukraineans are again defeated and subjugated people?

Flee. Find another country as a safe haven and get your family, your friends and you and get out of there?

Stick it out. Just ride the wave however it goes?

The same thing he is currently doing after a mob basically chased him out.
 
"What would you do if you were the leader of Ukraine now?"

If by "the leader" you mean an absolute monarch ----well, isn't it obvious?

I would immediately:

(1) Hand Donetsk and other defunct industrial Russian-speaking centers in the East over to "Russia". Who needs a Fifth Column, anyway? "There, be my guest. You have a perfectly good plan, how to revive their fortunes, I'm sure".

(2) Give up the Crimean Peninsula as a part of Ukraine, but fight like hell for the Crimean Tatar independence/functional autonomy, or - the worst case scenario - their relocation to the Kherson area, or something like that. Believe it or not, tribes of people do remember favors (google "Polak, Węgier — dwa bratanki").

(3) Beyond that - dig in, load your guns, clench your teeth, and pray. You will incur some losses, that's inevitable. But you still may win in the end (google "The Mannerheim Line")
 
I stated I do not think they will do this and it is clear Ukraine is not willing to fight.

As for "practical," causing a nuke to meltdown is as easy as it gets. a few mortar rounds into the cooling tower and cooling pipes would do it. Or just blow the power source. The trick with a functional nuke isn't making it meltdown. It is preventing it from doing so. Blowing storage tanks is easy enough. Scorched earth tactics historically in general are a successful tactic.

It would be among the most nefarious and sinister acts in human history and consign Ukraine to national suicide.

I said practically because there are an enormous amount of variables that would come into play, just to name one there are more than just easterly winds in Europe you'd be blowing radiation onto EU and NATO countries. It's also unlikely that you would do the kind of catastrophic damage to Russia that you are envisioning.
 
Clearly, with their country invaded, their navy seized or destroyed, and chaos growing, the leader of Ukraine could declare martial law and combined with being commander of the military take any action. Assume you had total power to make all decisions, what would you do?

Fight Russia with everything you got. If so, how?

Capitulate. Realize there is no way to win and turn all of Ukraine over to Russia to spare lives, conceding all Ukraineans are again defeated and subjugated people?

Flee. Find another country as a safe haven and get your family, your friends and you and get out of there?

Stick it out. Just ride the wave however it goes?

Try to negotiate a better quality of service agreement regarding regional security concerns.
 
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