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Even scarier for Americans and their Chinese debt-holders, what would a world be like with Russia and Europe united sufficiently well, economically and otherwis
by boffinAudio 3y ago
Even scarier for Americans and their Chinese debt-holders, what would a world be like with Russia and Europe united sufficiently well, economically and otherwise, that Schengen could extend from Brussels to Anadyr ..
This would create an economic super-bloc that even China could not confront.
I think that is the real threat to American hegemony: Europe and Russia, getting along. It'd be awesome, but not so much in Washington DC ..
- bmacho 3y agoWell Putin has destroyed this possibility for the next ~30 years. (Also the majority of Russians, who supported an invasion against an independent country and millions of its people.)
- boffinAudio 3y agoIf Putin is taken out by his own people, it could happen sooner ..
- bmacho 3y agoI don't think that Russia invading Ukraine was in the air, Russian people were requiring it, it made any geopolitical sense etc. I think it happened because of Putin. But this is just an uneducated guess, I am not really involved in the topic.
- boffinAudio 3y agoThe subject of the genocide of Russian-speaking Ukrainians is not one that most Westerners are prepared to confront. Well, we hardly are willing to discuss our own participation in genocide (Yemen), so that's hardly surprising. But rest assured, Russians have been concerned about it for years. It is a thing for them. They know what our armed forces have been doing, even if we don't ..