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Don't forget that plenty European countries made business with the USSR too. Also quite a number of EU members are quickly detaching themselves from democracy
by the_mitsuhiko 2y ago
Don't forget that plenty European countries made business with the USSR too. Also quite a number of EU members are quickly detaching themselves from democracy and a functional state. You don't have to look much farther than Hungary, Slovakia and even Austria to see that the trajectory this whole thing is on, is not a great one.
Many European countries will be happy even with a much degraded Russia for as long as it supplies Gas and other natural resources for cheap.
- trhway 2y agoThe USSR had clear separation border between the West and the Eastern Block. >Many European countries will be happy even with a much degraded Russia They would be. Only it isn't just good old much degraded Russia like it was even in 2020 (as the Russian opposition calls it "vegetarian times"). It is now a fascist state with a nationalism as its political ideology. By its nature such regime is an aggressively expansive.
- the_mitsuhiko 2y ago> The USSR had clear separation border between the West and the Eastern Block. And yet, the USSR was a massive energy supplier to Europe. The gas pipelines supplied the west long before the fall of it.
- trhway 2y agoyes, that is the point of good firewall - to allow safe, for whatever each side understand as safe, well defined and controlled flow/exchange. As i said the current issue being decided is where that firewall will be.
- lostmsu 2y agoCan you elaborate on Austria?