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If it is important to protect eastern borders against being overrun by dictatorships how come European NATO members does not fulfill their 2% GDP military spend
by tored 5y ago
If it is important to protect eastern borders against being overrun by dictatorships how come European NATO members does not fulfill their 2% GDP military spending goal? Or is that Russia's fault?
Why does EU sanction Poland, one of the few NATO members that does fulfill its 2% goal and have beefed up it's military against potential Russian aggression, or is that Russia's fault too?
Was it Swedish politicians that downsized the Swedish military so much that it now only can defend one place in Sweden for a week (en-veckas-försvaret, ~ one week defense) or was i Putin?
Was it Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel who opened the EU borders in 2015, which directly lead to a number of terrorist attacks, or was it Putin who did that?
Was it NATO and EU that toppled Libya's dictator Gaddafi, which created a terrorist hotbed just across the Mediterranean, or was it Russia?
If you know the answers to these questions you also know what the biggest threat is.
- CRConrad 5y agoAll your arguments are irrelevant: Stupid politicians not sufficiently reacting to the greatest threat doesn't make the greatest threat anything other than the greatest threat. Jobba lite på logiken.
- tored 5y agoNo, they are not stupid, they did it intentionally and that is why they are the biggest threat. They were full aware of the consequences of each of the above decisions, but did it anyway. What has happened in the west is that governments used to work for its citizenry, now they work against them, e.g. the surveillance state. But if the biggest threat must be a foreign power, let's think about it, How many every day items do Europeans use that is manufactured in Russia? How many every day items do Europeans use that is manufactured in China? Why did the European establishment class outsource manufacturing to a hostile communist dictatorship? Please explain why Russia is the biggest threat, you haven't come up with any good counterarguments yet. The potential threat of withholding future natural gas deliveries when all the pipelines are completed is not going to be that effective, because European energy sector is much more diverse and larger than Ukraine's, an old failed ex Soviet state with bad infrastructure. And when we are talking about bad infrastructure, is it Putin pulling the strings or the Swedish Social democrats and Green government that can't provide sufficient power infrastructure to all places in Sweden?