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Is having a conflict in Ukraine somehow making Europe more stable? To be entirely honest, from realpolitik point of view what Trump is doing makes cold and calc
by matusp 2y ago
Is having a conflict in Ukraine somehow making Europe more stable? To be entirely honest, from realpolitik point of view what Trump is doing makes cold and calculated sense. He will sacrifice Ukraine so that it will become a rump buffer state between Europe and Russia, and then he can trade with both. That will satisfy Russia as well as their strategic goal (no NATO in Ukraine) was achieved and they can return to business as usual.
- AlecSchueler 2y agoIt won't satisfy Russia, though. It will just give a thumbs up to them and anyone else wanting to make a land grab that they can go ahead and the US will look for appeasement. This is exactly the kind of thinking that lead to Chamberlain letting Hitler take the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia.
- matusp 2y agoAnd there is also hundreds of years of historical experience where establishing buffer states worked.
- dboreham 2y agoLike Belgium. Oh wait...
- AlecSchueler 2y agoSo how are you buffering Finland, or the Baltics? Where is Poland's buffer once you sacrifice Ukraine?
- weaksauce 2y ago> you might want to read about World War II. you didn't read enough about wwii then. giving putin ukraine emboldens him further just like hitler
- xorcist 2y agoUS had interests in the Ukraine because it was a buffer state. By sacrificing a whole country to Putin, NATO suddenly has enemy neighbors.
- anigbrowl 2y agoSince the beginning of the war in Ukraine Sweden and Finland have joined NATO, so now Russia has more, not less, border with NATO. How would a buffer on their southwestern border alleviate that?