The worst-case scenario is now a possible one: European troops fighting off an invasion largely alone.
It’s by no means clear the Europeans would succeed. Romanian and other European officials at the exercise in Cincu, about 260 kilometers (162 miles) north of Bucharest by road, voiced concerns about how long it would take for NATO allies to make it to the front.
French four-star General Philippe de Montenon said he’s confident Europe could prevail, even without the US on side. “The direction of history is a progressive disengagement of the United States from the European continent,” he said.
They were more than willing to engage in good faith from late 1990s to early 2010s, it’s the constant western meddling in Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and other Russian sphere of influence countries, coupled with the expansion of NATO, that pushed Russia to isolation. Russia doesn’t have the economic or soft power to fight the US+EU in that field, so either US+EU accept Russia peacefully having its own sphere of influence, or Russia will naturally attempt to do so militarily.
The USA doesn’t need to militarily engage in Mexico because it already belongs to its sphere of influence, in Venezuela they don’t enjoy that so the natural response is to threaten with military invasion (as it’s doing now). It’s basic geopolitics.
What about the stolen ukrainian children, was that a de-escalation tactic as well? Face it, theses russians are some of the worst neighbors europe could have, and I’m not even gonna mention the cyber warfare, the arsons, the shooting down of civilian airplanes, that journalist body returned with her fucking eyes scooped out.
It’s mostly magnified out of reality. The source for the vast majority of “stolen Ukrainian children” numbers (supposedly hovering around the tens of thousands according to western media) is a Ukrainian ministry. You don’t believe Ukraine has any reasons to exaggerate the numbers in atrocities for international image purposes? When the numbers are roughly confirmed by independent journalistic work, I’ll take the claims as they are, but until then I’ll be cautious and not take Ukrainian government propaganda at face value, the same way that I don’t take Russian government propaganda at face value when they talk of genocide of ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine pre-2022.
Russians could say the same about Europe contributing to genocide in Palestine, to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and the bombing of Libya and Yugoslavia. Or those don’t count somehow? Do you really think Europe has any moral high ground to stand on seeing its current support to the Netanyahu genocidal regime?
Cyber warfare is universal, and CIA actually dominates simply by the fact that most social media are owned by US companies. If you don’t think Twitter being owned by Elon Musk counts as western Cyberwarfare you’re plainly wrong. Chinese cyberwarfare through TikTok arguably is the biggest contributor to awareness of the Palestinian genocide in the west. As for the rest of comments, they’re isolated minor incidents during wartime, I could be talking shit about Poland keeping a Spanish journalist prisoner for years without evidence because he has Russian ancestors, but I don’t bring these things up because all states do dirty shit.
Aww poor Russia, they were just trying to “peacefully have its own sphere of influence”.
Give me a fucking break.
And what the US is doing in Venezuela is not a “natural response” to anything, and to try to point to it as a justification for Russia’s actions is actually insane.