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There’s more at risk here then Ukraine.I doubt it. The West isn't about to pick a fight with Russia over the Ukraine. The country simply isn't important enough.
There’s more at risk here then Ukraine.I doubt it. The West isn't about to pick a fight with Russia over the Ukraine. The country simply isn't important enough.
There’s more at risk here then Ukraine.
Not wanting your country to be pillaged by a pseudo-nationalist empire of poverty ran by thieving oligarch = fascist ultranationalist state.
The most at risk imo is US and NATO appearing weak. Emboldening other wanna be strong men in the world to follow Russias play.Yup, if we don't start WWIII now because of 3 Ukrainian tugboats, it's only a matter of time till Russian paratroopers land in Colorado.
The most at risk imo is US and NATO appearing weak. Emboldening other wanna be strong men in the world to follow Russias play.
I’m not full on Red Dawn yet.
Yup, if we don't start WWIII now because of 3 Ukrainian tugboats, it's only a matter of time till Russian paratroopers land in Colorado.
The most at risk imo is US and NATO appearing weak. Emboldening other wanna be strong men in the world to follow Russias play.
I’m not full on Red Dawn yet.
Lol. The EU is building their own army they will be fine.
Americans are so stupid a good half of them would support ww3. Your country loves to kill brown people and spend hundreds of billions in weapons and overseas stuff but not on your own people. Love of war is so strong its capitalism!
Because we just know that the Taliban would have invaded the US and easily taken over and Saddam was just a few miles away from Washington.
The real world's quite a bit more complicated than that. Geopolitics is a real thing and if you don't play it, your civilization will be conquered or subdued by means of a thousand cuts. The western world has known that for thousands of years and is only recently protected from that reality via Pax Americana. Ignorance is bliss is the state of most of the Western World right now because the hard things that have to be done are being done for them.
Yeah, all those millions of refugees and migrants pouring into Europe and changing the entire fabric of Europe largely thanks to US sponsored wars and interventions was such a great thing which will no doubt secure peace for a thousand years.
Not to mention your hardcore support for the terrorist state of Saudi Arabia which is the biggest sponsor of Sunni terrorism in the world and basically the father of organizations such as ISIS and Al Qaeda and who's citizens even brought down your WTC down and then you invaded a country which had absolutely NOTHING to do with it and killed hundreds of thousands and ruined millions of lives and destroyed an entire country.
Do you ever wonder why when surveyed, most people in most countries in the world look at America as the single biggest evil in the world? Because well, it is.
"Which country is the biggest danger to world peace?"
But keep patting yourself on the back. Make America Great Again at the cost of everyone else.
The real world's quite a bit more complicated than that. Geopolitics is a real thing and if you don't play it, your civilization will be conquered or subdued by means of a thousand cuts. The western world has known that for thousands of years and is only recently protected from that reality via Pax Americana. Ignorance is bliss is the state of most of the Western World right now because the hard things that have to be done are being done for them.
No, the outright invasion and occupation of your country isn't the only risk a country faces.is this a joke?
No, the outright invasion and occupation of your country isn't the only risk a country faces.
EG -- The ME is never going to occupy the USA or Europe. So, what if the US and Europe decided to make it their policy to ignore the ME militarily then?
Then another major power or a consortium of countries would use geopolitics or their military to control all the oil, and use it to dominate your countries. One of your newspapers or politicians criticizes that power? Oil cut off. You don't do what they want on a trade deal? Oil cut off. Now your newspapers and politicians are subserviant to that country or consortium.
You like to trade with Australia? Well, that's a big ocean that has to go through.. what if some country in a strait along the way decided to "tax" or put "duties" on your trade?
This was all reality that Europe had to deal with before America started doing it for them.
Not wanting your country to be pillaged by a pseudo-nationalist empire of poverty ran by thieving oligarch = fascist ultranationalist state.
US did nothing to Saudi Arabia and the world sees how weak it now is.
America shrivels up. Russia expands: breaks up Europe and resumes relations with Cuba.
China expands even more with their Island building and Taiwan win.
But not everything is relative; we should not slip into collective amnesia over the Obama administration’s weak and underwhelming response to Russian aggression. Throughout his presidency, Obama consistently underestimated the challenge posed by Putin’s regime. His foreign policy was firmly grounded in the premise that Russia was not a national security threat to the United States. In 2012, Obama disparaged Mitt Romney for exaggerating the Russian threat—“the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years,” Obama quipped. This breezy attitude prevailed even as Russia annexed Crimea, invaded eastern Ukraine, intervened in Syria, and hacked the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Obama’s response during these critical moments was cautious at best, and deeply misguided at worst. Even the imposition of sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine was accompanied by so much propitiation and restraint elsewhere that it didn’t deter Russia from subsequent aggression, including the risky 2016 influence operation in the United States. Obama, confident that history was on America’s side, for the duration of his time in office underestimated the damaging impact Russia could achieve through asymmetric means.
yeah, thats why the US and EU are allowing the creation of an islamic state in the balkans.The real world's quite a bit more complicated than that. Geopolitics is a real thing and if you don't play it, your civilization will be conquered or subdued by means of a thousand cuts. The western world has known that for thousands of years and is only recently protected from that reality via Pax Americana. Ignorance is bliss is the state of most of the Western World right now because the hard things that have to be done are being done for them.