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He's right. Can someone explain to me why no other country has sent actual troops to counter Putin's invasion?
Easy to explain. Most of Europe is in nato and Nato doesn't want a confrontation because that could mean a nuclear end of the world. We let them get help from NK and Iran, because we know those countries can't really help that much. The plan was to give them enough weapons to defend and not all at once, as that would not provoke the end of the world. Until Trump came into office with his love of Putin. Now we can't really give them much unless it's bought from the US, when they let us buy.
We also don't want to give them enough to ruin Russia and risk balkanization of Russia, because then a bunch of nuclear weapons would end up under control of god knows who.
It's not an easy situation. Russia is done. It's economically, culturally, morally devastated. But for a normal future, there is less risk to keep it as is, then have uncontrollable change.
So forcing Ukraine to give up its arms, with no history of attacking its neighbours is something normal to do. For nothing, by the way, for a joke of security assurances. Only for Ukraine to observe the US administration to openly be Russian bitches doing whatever the daddy says.
But forcing a balkanised middle of fucking nowhere based bunch of savages, with a history of attacking like, what, twenty neighbours during the previous century alone—
Oh, yeah, that’s impossible for the western world to achieve. Let’s help the Russia as much as we can to never let them lose! Western civilisation is destined to be destroyed then, if it has absolutely no intellect. Not to say even something of values.
Swap those warheads for bananas to save the barbarians from the starvation, when the Russia is small again. Haven’t occurred to you, huh?
I'm describing the situation. I never said I support it.
Never said I don't either. It's a complex situation, either way it resolves will greatly impact the world history for decades if not hundreds of years.
Sorry, didn’t mean to attack you personally, rather this situation and the view. That’s just the point of view, and it’s wrong. It’s what Russia wants you to think, and it uses its fear. Somehow the west wasn’t afraid with Ukraine with no record of attacking neighbours giving up nukes to Russia with the proven record of attacking neighbours, and probably the biggest record during the previous century… somehow nobody thought its wrong. But now, ‘oh no, what if Russia loses and there is no Russia?!’ Fuck it, nukes aren’t going to launch themselves all of a sudden. A tiny regional power with nukes isn’t more dangerous than fucking big stupid Russia is. That’s a myth that benefits Russia.
It’s nice to have the current thinking explained, so thank you for doing that. But it’s this point of view is just wrong. And naive, and it never helps the oppressed, only the oppressor.
functionally, the global north's oligarchs all support eachother's agendas. Ukraine is nominally part of the global south based on economic pressures. largely, the liberal position of western europe is to stay out of it to avoid retaliation. this is, of course, a fallacy. russia is an aggressor. no one can be made safe by ignoring their threat and waiting for it to go away. the same can be said for the so called united states, china, and india. but largely europe doesn't want to intervene on the side of the colonized in a colonial war because europe benefits from colonialism more than it doesn't