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You believing that I equate state with people is wrong. I don't see point in further explanation, just take this into consideration. I have tried to argue with
by eveningcoffee 4y ago
You believing that I equate state with people is wrong. I don't see point in further explanation, just take this into consideration.
I have tried to argue with people from India about Russian invasion and guess what, it all ends in whataboutism. As far I understand the situation based on observation, Indians hold grudges very long (why did US support Pakistan in the war that happened 50 years ago?) and I know that Russian media propaganda is very strong in India. It is complicated diplomatic issue.
I don't have contacts in Pakistan and China, so I could not comment on this one, but it looks to me that both countries are slightly balanced in favor of Ukraine, that is, if they did not favor Ukraine, they would be more supportive to Russia.
Hungarian president is very clearly in Putin pocket based on his statements. There are two factors: he is known to be incredibly corrupt (according to Hungarians) and there is Hungarian minority question in Ukraine. But he is clearly an outlier in EU.
Brazil has agreed to provided ammunition to Ukraine - shells for German Gepards. This shows that they are not very strongly aligned with Russia. I do not know what is the current status of the deal.
It was explained to me that Biden pretty much ruined in very short time what Trump had accomplished in Middle-East because this is Democrat party policy to favor Iran over Saudi-Arabia even when it is stubborn stupid, so exactly this is what he did - attempted to make Iran sell gas and oil to Europe. He managed to make bad situation worse unfortunately.
Israel support to Ukraine has grown stronger after Russia's complete diplomatic fiasco. It may get very bad if Russia somehow mistreats captured Azov Jewish fighters.
One thing is sure, Russian capability to affect public opinion in foreign countries should not be underestimated. It may appear that it completely lost its edge in Western countries but other countries are pretty much wide open and helpless against Russian propaganda because the population does not have internal detection mechanisms like Western countries have.
The main issue is that large part of the world, including Western countries, do not realize the extent of the problem the world is facing.
If Russia manages to win then globally
Using nuclear weapons (or threat of) as offensive weapon becomes possibility
Using famine (or threat of) as offensive weapon becomes possibility
Committing wide scale genocide becomes norm
Support to Fascist regimes and movements will grow stronger
Risk of local conflicts started by Russia will grow larger
Risk of local conflicts started by aggressive local actor (with or without foreign support) will grow larger
China's hostile ambitions against other countries will grow stronger
In addition risk of actual nuclear confrontation between NATO and Russia will rise.