We are in a weird timeline... I mean, I agree with you that, as things stand, Europe needs to increase military spending and European countries need proper armies (hopefully developing their own military tech in the process, rather than sending money to the US military-industrial complex like Trump wants).
But honestly, I wish we were in a different timeline, one where the world was still integrating and mutual trust and understanding were possible.
Mutual respect, trust and understanding is never granted with arrogance and bullying as the US has shown time and again.
Maybe Europe should look east and humbly nurture the feasibility of partnering with its nearest and not so nearest neighbors, namely Russia, India and China, to name a few. Me thinks.
Wholeheartedly agree with both of you. I'd rather have a world order based on trade, diplomacy, mutual trust and long term partnerships. That'd be a win-win for everyone in my opinion but it's not where we are now and I'm not sure where we're headed.
Agreed. I have family in Europe, Brazil, and Canada. In an ideal scenario, all of the real players would learn to work together. The US wouldn’t be bullying rare earth minerals out of Ukraine or acting aggressively towards Greenland, South America, Canada, etc., with the other nuclear superpowers working in cooperation. Putin would eventually be driven out of Russia, and the unified European market experiment would grow into a global market with free circulation of both goods and people.
Cheap energy, cheap food, cheap commodities, top-notch global R&D, independence from US Big Tech, Big Finance, Big Pharma, and technofeudalism. A partnership with BRICS countries, Australia, Canada, and others would guarantee strategic resources. Meanwhile, the US and Israeli governments could shove their world-destabilisation agendas up their arses.
It would be a great timeline to be part of.
We have been trying this for the past 25 years - trying to go buddy buddy with war criminal and terrorist Putin. The result - he has shown us big middle finger, took Crimea and murdered thousands of Ukrainian civilians and children. This is incredibly naive and borderline ignorant ... Putin respects only strength ... Don't be #Putin's useful idiot ...
#StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #PutinIsAWarCriminal
> "Yet #Russia is demonized for protecting Russians in the Russian areas of #Ukraine from massacre by neo-Nazis. How have Ukrainian neo-Nazis, financed and supported by Washington and Israel, avoided the demonization applied to Hamas?"
-- [Paul Craig Roberts](https://tinyurl.com/mpssjyb5)
Just to be clear about my position: Putin is an authoritarian dictator, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was as much about "defending innocent Russians in Ukraine" as Hitler's invasion of Poland was about defending Germans. There's no originality here. The so-called "special operation in Ukraine" is straight out of Himmler’s propaganda playbook: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Himmler
The real reasons for the invasion are basically to prevent Ukraine from joining the EU (which inevitably raises the NATO-at-Russia’s-border question) and to avoid setting the "wrong" example for other Eastern European countries under Russian influence. As a bonus, Russia also gets to annex regions rich in rare earth minerals, which are now highly valuable (US primary interest in the region).
In my view, any trade or future relations with Russia should be conditional on Putin being removed from power and not simply replaced by one of his cronies. Otherwise, it would be the same as the US replacing Trump with one of the tech billionaires that put him in power.
So, long story short: disliking the US’s rising authoritarian regime doesn’t mean I have any love for Russia’s current dictator. Just as Americans deserve better than Trump, Russians deserve better than Putin.
As much as I hate being Captain Obvious, the majority of the Americans either did vote for a convicted felon, a court adjudicated rapist and the dumbest person to ever run for POTUS or stayed home because they couldn't vote for a black woman.
Cry me a river, ruSSian troll. This neo-Nazi crap propaganda is so pathetically dumb, absurd and ludicrous, nobody with an IQ higher than 85 does believe that ... as shown by majority of the Free World still supporting Ukraine against ruSSian murderers of children, terrorists and rapists ... ruSSias are the neo-Nazis here, they have the same form of government, they commit the same hideous war crimes and have the same disregard for human life. You are losing on all fronts ...
