if innocent Russians start being killed in greater numbers
no innocent russians are being killed in Ukraine... every single one chose to go
Do you think Poland is sovereign?
No country in the modern world is truly sovereign... all depend on other countries. The choice is which countries to depend upon and russia has chosen the three worst (Communist China, Iran and North Korea).
America has a uniquely schizophrenic foreign policy right now
This is part of the death of the nation state model.... government ceases to be about looking out for citizen interests (in those countries where that was a concern) and working out cognitive dissonance in real time trying to assume that all nations are rational actors motivated by finance... which of course... they're not.
Germany tried to treat russia like a rational actor motivated by rational concerns about citizen welfare and russia stabbed them in the back for morally bankrupt reasons of imnperial ideology....
Palestinians and Russians are not rational. Chinese citizens are more rational that the neo-Maoist Xi and North Korea thought 1984 was a blueprint...
It was hoped that the world might escape the massively irrational and destructive wars of the kind that are about changing state and government models... but the irrationality is too strong, so things are barely getting started....
The world is soooo screwed....