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>The EU must be willing to experience discomfort Id be more willing to suffer discomfort if diplomatic options were exhausted before this war. As it is we are
by pydry 4y ago
>The EU must be willing to experience discomfort
Id be more willing to suffer discomfort if diplomatic options were exhausted before this war.
As it is we are made to suffer ultimately, because NATO and Russia are spoiling for a proxy war and because the US has been itching to sell us some overpriced LNG.
The US should be giving us LNG at a discount on prewar levels. This is largely their proxy war, not ours.
- ben_w 4y agoI don’t see how you can call a direct conflict between Russia and anyone a proxy war for Russia. If you did, the USA involvement in Vietnam would be a proxy war for the USA, and the American war of independence would be a proxy war for the British — in both cases some other power also had some interest, but I would never call either a proxy war for the USA and British respectively.
- pydry 4y agoVietnam absolutely was a proxy war - US against Moscow. Domino theory and all that. The US has a long history of demanding others to sacrifice themselves at the altar of its imperialist struggles, whether it's Australians being sent to die in vietnam or European pensioners being asked to die of cold in dec 2022.