10 sats \ 26 replies \ @TomK 17 Apr \ parent \ on: "Should Congress Stop Funding the War in Ukraine?" Yes! econ
Neutrality, humanitarian aide would have been proper answers. But London and Neocons (the militart complex that's making shitloads of money now) decided differently. The rest is big propaganda gaslighting
Neutrality in Ukraine-Russia conflict would cost West more in the long run. Giving weapons and ammunition to Ukraine is cheaper than maintain bigger standing army later for future threats from Russia.
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No, it isn't lost. Russians are very ineffective at warfare, they try to compensate it by just numbers. If military aid to Ukraine would come faster, Russians would probably be beaten already.
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Russian military tech and tactics is no match compared to the West.
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Ukraine has a manpower shortage.
Unless you think NATO should send troops
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If if if
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Russia has never invaded the West
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exactly. Russia has only ever been a threat when it was attacked first. they stood in Paris and Berlin only after they were attacked from there. The same is true about the Baltics, who, let's remember, gleefully joined with the Austrian water color artist in his (originally US-funded, let's not forget) attempt to march east.
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No. Russians have attacked Baltics since Medieval times. Learn history, please!
Baltics, who, let's remember, gleefully joined with the Austrian water color artist in his (originally US-funded, let's not forget) attempt to march east.
What are you talking about? Latvia was occupied by Soviet Union before Germany attacked Soviet Union. There were two Latvian Waffen SS divisions, but it has nothing to do with Latvian government and 90% of people there were conscripted (you had "free choice" - either go to the front or concentration camp). But they fought bravely anyway, as Soviets were bigger evil than Nazi Germany. Btw, former soldiers of 15th Latvian Waffen SS division were later recruited as the guards at Nurenberg tribunal.
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What's your definition of the "West"? They invaded Poland, Finland and Baltics in 1939 and 1940. They took over East and Central Europe countries after WWII. Etc. And idea about empire from Vladivostok to Lisbon is kinda popular among Russian population (I mean it's not something only underground extremists talk about, you can hear such ideas on national TV).
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West is the original NATO members.
New members after 1991 are not Western Europe and USA
New members that were former Warsaw Pact members are not considered West.
Baltic countries are not the West.
Ukraine cannot win because they lack manpower.
USA cannot give blank check to Ukraine
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These countries were part of Western European cultural sphere for centuries, before Warsaw Pact come into existence. Riga, for example, was one of the main cities of Hanseatic League in Medieval Europe, Poland-Lithuania saved Europe from takeover by Ottomans, etc.
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Anything east of the iron curtain is not Western Europe
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That's less than 100 years old definition of what is West. Geographically centre of Europe is in Baltics.
West as a culture started with Roman Empire, not Soviet Union.
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It’s the geopolitical definition since 1946
That is more relevant
Roman Empire fell because of over extension.
NATO will collapse if it continues to over extend