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> Basically, he thinks the west precipitated the crisis by pushing to have Ukraine join NATO This is a downright lie. Anyone who follows NATO knows that there
by rosndo 5y ago
> Basically, he thinks the west precipitated the crisis by pushing to have Ukraine join NATO
This is a downright lie. Anyone who follows NATO knows that there has been very little desire to allow Ukraine to join.
- sudosysgen 5y agoIt's really not. NATO doesn't want Ukraine now that Russia is serious about opposition, but in the 2006-2009 the US was fighting really hard for Ukraine to join NATO despite opposition by France and Germany. Eventually Ukraine had a change of mind, but not before NATO formally stated Ukraine was welcome. The move away from NATO/EU ambitions was unpopular domestically in Ukraine and led to Euromaidan, after which it turned out that NATO and co. weren't willing to back up their posture anymore. You should listen to the talk by Mearsheimer, it's very instructive and interesting. There is a reason he is such a respected mind on geopolitics.
- fmajid 5y agoThe US is not the same thing as NATO, even if it is the leading country in it.
- sudosysgen 5y agoThe US exerted enough pressure over NATO that it's policy became NATO policy in that case.
- calyth2018 5y agoOh please, US would push back against UK's .280 British small arms cartridge[0] for NATO harmonization, despite there was already ample testing shown that the more powerful 7.62mm cartridge was nigh-uncontrollable in automatic fire. Only for the Vietnam war to demonstrate the deficiencies of 7.62NATO, and then US and NATO adopted 5.56mm, proving the initial UK testing right. If the US can make all its members adopt a small-arms cartridge despite it not being particularly ideal, the separation between the US and NATO is merely a facade. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62%C3%9751mm_NATO#T65_series_experimental_cartridges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62%C3%9751mm_NATO#T65_series...