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Reasonable-sounding people in the West will — already are — argue that the combined economies of Poland, the Baltic States, Romania, etc. are not worth WWIII an
by trzy 5y ago
Reasonable-sounding people in the West will — already are — argue that the combined economies of Poland, the Baltic States, Romania, etc. are not worth WWIII and that a comfortable and secure Russia will want to reintegrate into the global economy and can be reasoned with. From a purely rational perspective, they are not wrong. Even if it means the end of NATO, that’s preferable to Armageddon. The Germans have long belittled Poland, the Balts, etc. as irrational and irrelevant in their pursuit of a stable equilibrium with Russia. And the US? Even more removed from this conflict with an increasingly difficult set of its own domestic challenges and institutional decline.
- Etherlord87 5y agoYou think that US is "removed from this conflict"? They don't send weapons to Ukraine, they don't share intel and advice with Ukraine, they don't train Ukrainian soldiers and they don't influence other countries to help Ukraine? You think that Germany considers Russia a reasonable partner? German newspapers that used to praise Merkel now don't criticize her for making Putin stronger? The government doesn't drop plans with Nordstream 2, also no plans appear to search for an alternative to russian gas? I'm sorry if the rhetoric I've chosen here sounds passively aggressive, but the "purely rational perspective" you described is very far from what I consider rational.