Mutually Exclusive Propositions
Or, How Much Do Ukrainian Lives Matter?
Some things are mutually exclusive. They cancel each other out.
Here are two such propositions.
1- It is better to live in fear of nuclear destruction than to be destroyed.
2- It is better to be killed than to live in fear.
These two propositions cannot co-exist and be simultaneously true.
Hopefully, Western leaders are grappling with those questions — no others matter.
Vladimir Putin is annihilating the people and country of Ukraine without Western (NATO) interference because he has bet on proposition number 1.
Following the heroic example of the courageous Ukrainians, true freedom lovers would spend their money (and their lives) on proposition number 2.
Putin believes that the West won’t risk nuclear war or nuclear holocaust to stop him. So far, he is winning this psychological battle. He counts on the West’s fear of nuclear Armageddon to control the West — no matter what horrors he unleashes on Ukraine.
Doing so, he has become the Emperor of the World in less than a fortnight.
Lest you think that is hyperbolic, please demonstrate to which higher authority Putin yields…
