I think we can handle Russia, nothing to fear from that shitshow of a country
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2024
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Russia has always fought wars the same way they are doing now. Its a shitshow? Yes, but they have won many wars this way, and they will eventually win this one unless the EU gets its shit together.
Going to call nonsense on the headline: NATO is intact, and Putin wouldn't dare invade a nato country.
Trump it's the caveat, but even in that event France and the UK have a nuclear umbrella, and there is a shit load of troops. A war with NATO is unwinnable for Russia for certain.
Ukraine danced with the neutrality devil and lost, just as Belgium on WW1 did, and the NL of WW2. Any country now adjacent to Russia and not in NATO has a choice: risk the neutrality game or side with NATO. I know which I'd be picking.
You're right about a Russia/NATO war being unwinnable for Russia. Even the current military of Europe alone would be enough to see off Russia.
So, what is he warning us about? I see two (not exclusive) things he could be doing.
Trump winning in America would cause such stress on NATO it would fragment, and even if they kick America out it still looks weak so they want all of Europe to beat the 2% requirement to try and keep trump's USA in NATO.
Second, he's warning of war with china. This is where my money is.
I'm not sure your grasp of the situation in BE in WWI or NL in WWII is ...accurate. It's certainly no longer relevant.
If we are on the brink of ww3, which I doubt, then Ukraine is the first casualty it appears. The parallels are easy to draw, but hard to back up certainly as the specifics do differ. But those not aligned will increasingly find themselves subject to pulls in either sphere of influence, which is my main point. Ultimately you could argue this all is a failure of foreign policy for a few governments with Russia being emboldened to invade. Which you could also say of both previous world wars too. To dismiss the comparison is to dismiss history, and those who fail to learn from history...
Putin wouldn't dare invade Ukraine, it's just training, right? They didn't "dance with neutrality". They were a former soviet state far east, that gave up its nukes for security guarantees that the US now wipes their ass with. They openly sided with democracy by throwing out a russian puppet - who wasn't really "neutral". You barely know the history of the country, yet you try to look like the expert.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_for_Peace - here's the hitlist if you're Putin. I'm fully aware of Ukraine's efforts with democracy, but you know who doesn't care? Anyone on this list not making serious efforts to join NATO is writing their own invasion plan imo
I agree. Nobody thought Putin would be stupid enough to invade Ukraine, myself included, but here we are. Putin is not working on the same logic as the rest of the world. Plus, no one is ever going to use nukes on any country that has them in parity, offensively or defensively.
All of us are in the pre-world War III era and we're gearing up quickly for it. In many ways it's already underway, and we're just now starting to get ready go make it even more massive and global.
Welcome to the 21st century where men have evolved into nothing more than war mongering utter pieces of filthy shit. This is what will be all our legacy, a world scorched into oblivion and not a trace of humanity anywhere left on the planet. Perhaps that's for the best, really.
men have evolved
This is like a "children of men" type usage of men and not like, gender right?
ppl like tusk saying “ i dont want to scare anyone….” Yet every fucking day all day this shit is on tv, social media, the streets whatever. We dont want to scare anyone.. well guess what, no one is scared anymore just fucking tired of warmongeringDICKtator wannabee shitstains. Either pull the fucking trigger and burn everything to the ground (because nobody wants the other guy to have that thing where theres war over, i dont even know what anymore) or shut the fuck up and make shit better.
"I don't want to" and "I have to" can coincide
Shit was going pretty good until Russia fucked it all up. Biggest mistake in the last 50 years in Europe was allowing Russia to Annex Crimea. That set a tone that landed us on this path.
who would have thought appeasement wouldnt work when it has, historically, also not worked?
When your own political standing is dependent on cheap oil, you won't endanger it, even for the lives of fellow Europeans or even your own children.