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How the USA should approach Eastern European region?
by JohnTClark 6y ago
How the USA should approach Eastern European region?
- bovermyer 6y agoI'll leave that to people who are trained for such things. I'm just a software guy.
- 1123581321 6y agoHow will you react if the trained people don’t think an overhaul is needed?
- bovermyer 6y agoI'll trust their judgment. I don't trust the judgment of the current administration.
- claydavisss 6y agoPeriodically you will find a "harumph!" post challenged instead of blindly upvoted, please do your homework
- bovermyer 6y agoI'm not sure what you mean. Could you elaborate?
- jessaustin 6y agoComments upthread were concerned that your least-common-denominator, I-watch-the-news-so-I'll-know-what-to-say, effort-free regurgitation of status quo platitudes has received upvotes on HN. This concern was deepened for parent comment once an actual conversation started and you had nothing to say in support of the proposition you had stated with such vehemence. If you're not going to expend the effort to think about a topic, please also save the effort required to post about the topic.
- claydavisss 6y agoYour comment was a "drive-by"....you wanted to take a low-effort cheap shot and then squeal your tires without consequence. There's a site for that - reddit.
- AndrewBissell 6y agoDo you mean the judgment of people like Samantha Power, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Henry Kissinger, Susan Rice, and Biden's foreign policy team which is largely inspired by and contiguous with that set?
- nix23 6y agoWhy do you think the US has any obligation or right to deal with others situation? It's not like the US is a Idol (anymore) for most other nations.
- bobthechef 6y agoWhy is the US interested in Europe at all? Whatever the reason, it's clear that failing to secure the Eastern Flank, even if there is no particular interest in Central and Eastern Europe (though there most certainly is), puts the rest of Europe in danger. A tangible example of this threat was the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920 (had the Poles lost, the Soviets would have marched right into Germany and probably beyond). The North European Plain is not exactly untraversable or empty of important East/West and North/South trade routes (it is the geographic center of Europe, remember).
- vkou 6y ago> Why is the US interested in Europe at all? To encircle and strangle Russia. That's how Russia sees it, at least, and I have a hard time arguing with that.