Honestly, nations desperate to join an aggressive alliance that’s responsible for death and destruction across the globe can get fucked. And they deserve everything that’s coming to them.
An Alliance so aggressive that decades of peace lulled it into such deep complacency that they let their military capabilities atrophy? You’re being a try-hard
We were talking about Europe so I apparently wasn’t specific enough. Most countries in NATO let any capacity they had for large scale land wars wither after the cold war ended since they only saw conflict in small “police actions” in far away lands as being in their future. Things like Kosovo. And, to be fair, even the Russians (Putin aside) were confident that Europe was past large land wars too.
An alliance that invaded Yugoslavia, and whose main sponsor has invaded Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan, just to name a few victims. The fact that NATO was free to roam and pillage the world while ignoring Russia underlines the fact that Russia was not an actual threat. If it was, then NATO chuds would’ve been focusing on it rather than maundering around the globe.
Nice straw man, nobody said US bad, Russia good. What I said is that you made a false equivalence. The atrocities the US commits around the globe are unparalleled. Analyze the fact that China hasn’t been at war since the 70s, and that it helps countries develop and improve their standard of living while the US bombs them and steals their resources. Analyze the fact that Russia has no problems having peaceful relations with all its neighbours in the east. Calling what you’re doing here ‘analysis’ is the height of comedy.
Honestly, nations desperate to join an aggressive alliance that’s responsible for death and destruction across the globe can get fucked. And they deserve everything that’s coming to them.
An Alliance so aggressive that decades of peace lulled it into such deep complacency that they let their military capabilities atrophy? You’re being a try-hard
Ask Qaddafi how peaceful they are.
Ask Qaddafi’s victims how peaceful Qaddafi was
You asserted “decades of peace” when Libya was fucking bombed. Libya presented zero threat to Europe or Europeans.
That’s not peace.
Also, is Libya better off today than it was under Qaddafi?
We were talking about Europe so I apparently wasn’t specific enough. Most countries in NATO let any capacity they had for large scale land wars wither after the cold war ended since they only saw conflict in small “police actions” in far away lands as being in their future. Things like Kosovo. And, to be fair, even the Russians (Putin aside) were confident that Europe was past large land wars too.
And the true colors come out. As long as it’s not people with blond hair and blue eyes being bombed, everything is fine.
An alliance that invaded Yugoslavia, and whose main sponsor has invaded Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan, just to name a few victims. The fact that NATO was free to roam and pillage the world while ignoring Russia underlines the fact that Russia was not an actual threat. If it was, then NATO chuds would’ve been focusing on it rather than maundering around the globe.
The main problem is the three big Empires on Earth: the US, Russia, and China.
Way to make a false equivalence there.
Some of us don’t “US bad, Russia good”. We look at each individual scenario, analyze it, and come to conclusions.
Nice straw man, nobody said US bad, Russia good. What I said is that you made a false equivalence. The atrocities the US commits around the globe are unparalleled. Analyze the fact that China hasn’t been at war since the 70s, and that it helps countries develop and improve their standard of living while the US bombs them and steals their resources. Analyze the fact that Russia has no problems having peaceful relations with all its neighbours in the east. Calling what you’re doing here ‘analysis’ is the height of comedy.
you just do a lazy “All powerful nations bad”, because you have a lib definition of imperialism
Except you did zero analysis, you just went “everyone is bad” and proceeded to feel smug and superior.