Pete Hegseth tells NATO that a return to Ukraine's 2014 borders is 'unrealistic'
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I don't like what you said but sadly it is true - we should have invested much more in the defence and start permanent sanctions on Russia since Chechnya war.
That doesn't distract from the fact that Trump is a cunt working hand in hand with Putler.
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I have looked it up. That's why I'm correcting you.
The country changed it in 1991, which is the year they got their independence.
"Ukraine" means "borderland". Adding "the" in front of it makes it descriptive: the borderland of a larger nation. Removing the "the" makes it a name, which it is, because it's its own country.
I don't correct people unless I've already looked it up. And I don't continue the conversation without looking it up again. Just say "Ukraine".
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Given how you seem to need justifying your correction, I wonder what’s the point of it in the first place. I have used the term both with and without the article, obviously disregarding the political implications I am aware of.
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Why would you disregard the political implications?
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Because the content of my post already makes it clear that my position and perspective is on the side of Ukraine.
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I 100% agree.
For at least the next 4 years I would not count on the US honoring any security arrangements. Any intelligence shared with us is likely going to be passed to Russia.
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If the war is already lost why do russian oil refineries keep exploding? If Russia is winning so hard why are frontline troops moving around in unarmored golf carts? Why does Ukraine still hold land in Russia? Where'd the best Koreans go?
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BRICS delusion strikes again
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Unfortunately, there really isn't that much of it, even if it royally pisses Moscow off.
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I honestly wouldn't have completely counted on the US before that either. Countries don't have friends and they all only work for themselves.
While there are groups that are often going in the same direction, you can't just count on others. Each deal is unique, and each treaty can be broken at any time. The US move when it's in their interest to do so. But should their local political situation be tense, or if there's nothing to gain, it's much less obvious IMO. And of course, at the moment, it's quite likely that most treaties will just be put to the shredder.
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The problem is a HUGE part of our economy and the world economy depends on this spending. Musk and Trump are fucking morons who are actively destroying the US economy and strength.
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Your first sentence is laughably false.
It's like you don't have a clue the eu exists. -
Wow you sound sooo smart! Waaay more smart than me a dumb American!
Please educate me on the date that the EU began to
field an army? -
Absolutely, they are destroying the rules based order with no fucking clue as to what will replace it.
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IVAN! WHY DO THE REFINERIES KEEP EXPLODING IVAN??
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I mean it's also pretty unrealistic that a drunk-ass low-life redneck would be secretary of defense, yet here we are.
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are you trying to tell us that spending your teenage years watching Springer everyday isn't a path to international notoriety?
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Notoriety, maybe.
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We will see what happens when Trump pulls US support out of Ukraine.
I sincerely hope you are right and Europe marshalls an effective defense. If you do, you’ll do so at great cost in blood and treasure. If you don’t you’ll watch Russia nibble away at Europe for the next several decades. Neither of those is anything to “lol” about.
