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The idea was to tie their welfare together with Russia’s to strengthen the bond of the nations and work toward a friendly future together. That didn’t work out
by jimbob45 5y ago
The idea was to tie their welfare together with Russia’s to strengthen the bond of the nations and work toward a friendly future together.
That didn’t work out but I don’t know that Europe should be chastised for wanting to engage with Russia in good faith.
- tomohawk 5y agoFaith requires an object. On what was this faith based? It was based on Putin. It couldn't have been placed on the Russian people, as Putin decides everything. And what did Putin do? He attacked Georgia and took part of it. He attacked Ukrain and took part of it, and then backed a war there for several years. Oh, and all of the people who he assassinated by poisoning them. People in other countries. How could the former German Chancellor go work for him after all of that? How could Merkel turn off all the nukes to ensure Russian gas would be the only viable alternative? In other words, this was not good faith. It was misplaced faith, and obviously so, as even Trump pointed out.
- Shadonototra 5y agothe US did much worse in the middle east, but for some reason people think they went there to do some baby sitting