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Why can't Ukraine and other Eastern European countries drift westward if they want to?
by rectang 5y ago
Why can't Ukraine and other Eastern European countries drift westward if they want to?
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoThey can. But it is not "Ukraine" that it drifting (and you make that sound like it is just the wind blowing them) westward. It is the U.S. and NATO that are PUSHING westward. In that case as well, why can't Russia "drift eastward?
- sidibe 5y agoIt takes no pushing. Put yourself in the shoes of an Eastern European. Why would you not want to be part of EU and NATO... Staying in Russia's influence seems to just offer corruption and oligarchs, the countries that joined the EU are thriving relative to the others
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoCan you also put yourself in the shoes of a Ukrainian? And what is the difference between a Russian "Oligarch" and Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk? And the countries that joined the EU are thriving because the EU economically crushes the other countries through the IMF.