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> your Russia problem Unless you have already prescribed to the acceptance of big countries swallow the small ones at whim, it is not only our problem. Also R

> your Russia problem Unless you have already prescribed to the acceptance of big countries swallow the small ones at whim, it is not only our problem. Also Russia gaining control means often the USA loosing. > Why don't you ask your new friend China for help? Who said China is the friend of Europe? The USA has become a new unpredictable adversary, while China is an old enemy. Human nature is just to choose certainty over uncertainty even if that is actually worse. > We need to reallocate money away from our military, and towards our healthcare system I don't think EU countries have a problem with that. They rather complain, that you are currently allocating money to a military, that wants to attack EU states and to a para-military that attacks USA citizens. > So we need to drop sanctions on Russia, like China has done, so that the Europeans will like us more? It is that China is seen as evil anyway, so nobody expects them to sanction Russia for real, while we didn't saw the USA that way. > For years, Europeans have sharply criticizing the United States for sometimes partnering with authoritarian countries. You don't criticize enemies, you criticize friends. I think the criticism also was more that you create authoritarian countries, partnering was also done by European nations, that's called realpolitik.

0xDEAFBEAD 9mo ago
>Unless you have already prescribed to the acceptance of big countries swallow the small ones at whim, it is not only our problem. The US is a big country. Why would it be affected by a problem of big countries swallowing smaller ones? The Europeans always argue that the US only acts in its self-interest. But then when they explain why helping Europe is in the self-interest of the US, they always have the most nonsensical arguments. >Also Russia gaining control means often the USA loosing. I favor a policy of neutrality and world peace, not rivalry between major powers like the US and Russia. >It is that China is seen as evil anyway, so nobody expects them to sanction Russia for real, while we didn't saw the USA that way. Why is China more popular than the US in European opinion polls? >You don't criticize enemies, you criticize friends. That doesn't make any sense, you criticized Russia plenty. Furthermore, European "criticism" of the US is far too mean-spirited for it to be plausible that you are our friend. (That's been true for decades.) >I think the criticism also was more that you create authoritarian countries, partnering was also done by European nations, that's called realpolitik. Interesting how "realpolitik" can be used to explain European behavior but not American behavior.
- mopsi 9mo ago
  Nothing new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee#Issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee#Issues
  - 0xDEAFBEAD 9mo ago
    That's exactly the problem. US foreign policy analysts think that every issue is the next WW2, and that leads us to military misadventures all over the place. Utter foolishness. It's always the same double bind. If we are involved, we're called imperialist. If not, we're called complicit. There's no way to win.
    - mopsi 9mo ago
      Earlier you wrote: > I favor a policy of neutrality and world peace, not rivalry between major powers like the US and Russia. The thing is, nobody's offering you that. In the ideal scenario for Russia, the US would be mired in internal conflict and instability to such an extent that it would be unable to function as a country, leaving Russia to dominate the world: > Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Con... In other words, they want an endless line of Donald Trumps to ruin your country and turn it into a banana republic so that you wouldn't have the energy to pay attention to Russia stomping over the rest of the world. Why would any American voluntarily choose this fate?
      - 9mo ago

0xDEAFBEAD 9mo ago

>Unless you have already prescribed to the acceptance of big countries swallow the small ones at whim, it is not only our problem. The US is a big country. Why would it be affected by a problem of big countries swallowing smaller ones? The Europeans always argue that the US only acts in its self-interest. But then when they explain why helping Europe is in the self-interest of the US, they always have the most nonsensical arguments. >Also Russia gaining control means often the USA loosing. I favor a policy of neutrality and world peace, not rivalry between major powers like the US and Russia. >It is that China is seen as evil anyway, so nobody expects them to sanction Russia for real, while we didn't saw the USA that way. Why is China more popular than the US in European opinion polls? >You don't criticize enemies, you criticize friends. That doesn't make any sense, you criticized Russia plenty. Furthermore, European "criticism" of the US is far too mean-spirited for it to be plausible that you are our friend. (That's been true for decades.) >I think the criticism also was more that you create authoritarian countries, partnering was also done by European nations, that's called realpolitik. Interesting how "realpolitik" can be used to explain European behavior but not American behavior.

mopsi 9mo ago
Nothing new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee#Issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee#Issues
- 0xDEAFBEAD 9mo ago
  That's exactly the problem. US foreign policy analysts think that every issue is the next WW2, and that leads us to military misadventures all over the place. Utter foolishness. It's always the same double bind. If we are involved, we're called imperialist. If not, we're called complicit. There's no way to win.
  - mopsi 9mo ago
    Earlier you wrote: > I favor a policy of neutrality and world peace, not rivalry between major powers like the US and Russia. The thing is, nobody's offering you that. In the ideal scenario for Russia, the US would be mired in internal conflict and instability to such an extent that it would be unable to function as a country, leaving Russia to dominate the world: > Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Con... In other words, they want an endless line of Donald Trumps to ruin your country and turn it into a banana republic so that you wouldn't have the energy to pay attention to Russia stomping over the rest of the world. Why would any American voluntarily choose this fate?
    - 9mo ago