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US has a lot of benefits from it but the impact on EU are EU's responsibility as well. Countries like Germany didn't take the threat seriously and kept them rel
by actuator 4y ago
US has a lot of benefits from it but the impact on EU are EU's responsibility as well. Countries like Germany didn't take the threat seriously and kept them reliant on Russian hydrocarbons. They didn't spent money on their military and kept outsourcing it to US.
We will never know this but if saying that NATO membership is off the table could have prevented the war, they should have pushed for it.
> and we have to consider letting our culture of more freedom leak into these countries instead of forcing it upon them
With PRC, this had been the approach itself but it turns out it is not going to happen. We shouldn't even expect PRC to follow the values of west, it should be up to them to decide what they want to do.
> Isolation of a power (first Russia, soon China) that endangers the US empire
It does endanger the US empire but it endagers other nations as well like you found in the case with Ukraine.
- hef19898 4y agoMan, Germany relying on Russian gas is such history ignorant meme by now. Ever since Stalin Germany got gas from the USSR, relaibly at that. Fun fact: we still do, despite the war.
- alisonkisk 4y ago
- ericmay 4y ago> We will never know this but if saying that NATO membership is off the table could have prevented the war, they should have pushed for it. We can reject this as a potential outcome. Putin tells you why he invaded Ukraine. He has penned essays about this with little to no mention of NATO whatsoever. NATO membership makes no difference and is just rhetoric to confuse you.
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