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Safer for whom? Not Ukraine. If trade interdependence keeps democracies from defending other democracies, but doesn’t deter Russia, then it is counterproductiv
by WillPostForFood 5y ago
Safer for whom?
Not Ukraine. If trade interdependence keeps democracies from defending other democracies, but doesn’t deter Russia, then it is counterproductive.
There is probably value in interdependence, but it can’t be blind interdependence - it needs to be conditional and truly multilateral. If EU depends more on Russian fossil fuels than Russia depends on EU imports, it isn’t really interdependence.
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- kbelder 5y agoTrade is not what's keeping Europe from joining the fight with Ukraine. It's nuclear weapons. If the Russians didn't have nukes, they would have already been forcibly expelled from Ukraine, and we'd be debating about whether to push them out of Crimea.
- dragonwriter 5y agoIf Russia didn't have nukes the invasion of Ukraine in 2014 wouldn't have been allowed to stand and we wouldn't be talking about another one in 2022.