How do you think the global community should react to Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

In an ideal world, the international community should condemn Russia's actions and call for action as well as impose pressure on Moscow to stop at the threat of being ostracized and outcasted. On responding to Ukraine's call for aid, foreign volunteers and unmarked foreign military forces should be allowed to support the defense of the country, with NATO supplying them with logistical support. But, in reality, politics and economics complicates a lot of things. If I could say one ideal should scenario for this entire situation, it's that there should've been an immediate international military response towards Russia's aggression from the get go. The only question that's in my head about the Russian side is that considering how strategic and contentious Ukraine is for Moscow, why the sloppy execution? But that's a good thing for Ukraine, kick them off while they still don't have a substantial foothold.

Nothing much different than what it's going now. Putin is hurting hard and his future don't look so bright. Biden has shown extraordinary leadership in uniting the rest of the world against the Russian menace.

Yes, as expected, already that question is the error. Look, it’s just only systemic there and has almost nothing to do with a specific person like Putin or a specific location like Ukraine. Those are only replaceable variables. So because you don’t understand the basics of that conflict you also won’t understand or accept my answer and highly probably censor it away.

In an ideal world, the international community should have reacted to everything that led to Putin's latest actions. The international community ignored the many breaches that Putin complained about, and he warned them many times. It's almost as if western powers wanted Putin to do this...

In an ideal world, the international community should have reacted to everything that led to Putin's latest actions.

Vague. What sort of reaction? Surprise? Glee? Amusement? And don't be afraid to call it 'Putin's latest invasion'.

The international community ignored the many breaches that Putin complained about, and he warned them many times.

Vague. What breaches? Has Russia been invaded too? Did someone annex valuable bits of his country? Did they spill his pint?

The whole world should react with disgust and horror at what the Russian armed forces are being ordered to do throughout Ukraine.

I said long ago to beware of a man trying to fulfill his legacy.

You can’t reason with an unreasonable person. Putin will go nuclear when boxed into a corner. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks.

The worst nightmare for the last 70 years is about to happen. I’m old and near the end of my life. If you’re young, you’re going to live or die in something akin to the Great Depression for at least a decade.

I don’t have an answer. Only the Russian people can stop this through a coup.

Smoke Putin

In a perfect world, people would have listened to warnings from 8 years ago that this was going to happen if things didn't change and stopped it then and there.

Since nobody in power listened to those warnings, that is a bit of a lost cause.

At this point, the best course of action is to resolve the conflict as soon as possible through as peaceful means as remain. Especially before anyone takes up America on their "green light" to conduct air strikes, which would just escalate things irrevocably. The easiest way to do that would be demilitarizing a neutral Ukraine, bonus for removing affiliations with far-right (read: Nazi) groups. Russia could stand down with the threat of a Ukranian staging ground neutralized, and western forces would have no more cause to try to manipulate them either.

Now, do I think any of that will happen? No, probably not, it is being excessively optimistic I am sure. We wouldn't be in this situation to begin with if people had listened to folks like Dr. Mearsheimer, so I don't think reason is going to prevail over the nationalistic fervor. Especially at this point. Likely we are going to end up a situation where Russia is going to have to occupy Ukraine for the foreseeable future, assuming we aren't at that point already. That is bound to be a messy affair that hurts both sides.

Its a racist war and so maybe promoting more diversity would cause Putin to back off.

Right now both sides are engaged in a zero-sum game where the only thing they are doing is figuring out the best way of inflicting maximum pain and suffering on the other side. The Russians are only devoted to figuring out how to destroy as much of Ukraine as they can, the Ukrainians are only focused on how they can kill as many Russian invaders as they can, and the West is only focused on how it can inflict as much harm on the Russian economy as it can.

It goes without saying that this is a pretty vicious cycle and not a great place for the world to be in, especially given the risks involved. In the long term it'll only make us all worse off and won't create any winners. How worse off will depend on how much longer this goes on for and how proficient each side learns to become at inflicting harm on the other.

We need something to alter the decision making equilibria of each side, but its hard to see where that would come from at this point. To resolve it, both sides are probably going to have to give something they really value up, but its hard to see them doing that right now. Putin is the aggressor here so nobody wants to be seen to be rewarding him for what he has done, and rightly so. But its hard to see how this war will end without him in some way being placated. I think him being overthrown is pretty unlikely, so we're going to have to learn to deal with him somehow, and much though I hate him I'm not overly convinced that turning Ukraine into an endless warzone just to spite him is going to work, nor would it be ethical.

I was kind of pleased to see that Zelenskiy's party is coming up with alternatives to NATO membership as a means of settling Ukraine's future security situation, it at least shows they are trying to come up with ideas that might bridge the gap with Russia in the interest of peace. But they've still got a lot of space between them.

Peace to the world.

In my view, it seems that the case of Ukraine is seen as a fire on the other side of river. It needs immediate and strong action to prevent a country in question from attacking. However, unlike major country involving with the issue, many countries seem to be coming to standstill, seeking the best way to avoid getting into the problem without losing their reliability. It make sense to me to some extent, yet it is not the time to be on the sideline.

The "global community" should react the same way as it does about the civil wars currently taking place the Yemen and Ethiopia.