Europe preps huge defense package in boost to Ukraine: "Never been seen"
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I think your analysis might be the silliest thing I've ever seen. A nuclear bomb in both nations' hands is the only thing that is going to end this war. It's called 'Mutually-Assured Destruction'.
But thank you for response.
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Because they didn't need to. As long as the United States was spending money on their truly vast military and was using that military capacity to defend Ukraine there was no requirement for any other the country do anything.
Now that the US has decided to become a pawn of Russia, it has become important.
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Some of the most iconic and renowned weapons of the 20th and 21st centuries were made by European countries. HK is a German company for example.
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Trump could literally start world war 3 and his supporters would still back him.
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In the UK the parties and the politicians who pushed for brexit are now having serious problems because they can't justify it. The vast majority of people who supported it now think it was a disaster.
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They did need to. Ukraine is losing the war bigtime. They needed more weapons at the start before Russia ramped up production.
If Europe sent the weapons at the start they could have broken the stalemate. Filling the American deficit does nothing to help Ukraine win.
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the only thing that is going to end this war. It’s called ‘Mutually-Assured Destruction’.
The IDF wouldn't drop a bomb on their own citizens because their prime ideology is jewish supremacy, plus they have the military might without it. Hamas, OTOH would have no qualms about it. I can't figure out if you are sarcastic here, but mutual destruction is exactly what would happen, so if you're saying that nuclear annihilation is the only way to stop this war, then you might be right, but generally that's the least favorable outcome.
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Zut alors! Vastly outclassed by France, Scheiße!
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Russia only cares about Moscow and st Petersburg. Britain and France have more than enough to turn those two cities into glowing glass craters.
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What the tech Bros think they're heading for is nazi Germany. But don't forget they're in bed with the fundamentalists. You're actually looking at a Christian version of modern day Iran. Once musk and trump have exerted control over the population, they'll be "taken care of" and you'll get Vance for the next 11 years.
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Why did they wait? Because if all this support started on day 1, a lot of folks would have feared nuclear retaliation and there is no way back from that.
The Russo-Ukrainian conflict is too complex to use your oversimplified perspective, and thus only useful to throw oil on the fire. There are serious nuclear threats, Putin’s unpredictable actions, it also involves many (very different) countries standing up against tyranny. The bureaucracy may be slow in its responses, but efforts are being made to ensure careful moves that prevent escalation. Labeling European leadership as bloodthirsty is misleading in my eyes; they are actively working to protect democracy.
Why would you think European leadership aiming for more dead Ukrainians? Why would they still provide financial and humanitarian support? And increase it now?
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World governments don't care about ukrainians the same way they don't care about children in gaza getting murdered. They don't care about democracy either as they are in bed with saudi arabia and other dictatorships.
Watch out when you ear about "anarchists" fighting along side authoritarian governments because that's something anarchists don't do by definition.
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It's a lot harder to do in some other democratic structures. 100 % for sure we have not yet reached end-game governance styles, no one and nothing is immune to sustained malice, but (for example) multi-party cabinets are a lot harder to 'flip' then just stealing one election and press the fascist button, which is what this ( States of Murica politics ) kind of feels like from a distance.
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So you are saying Europe does not want Ukraine to win because then Russia uses Nukes...
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Better late than never.
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About time they pull their weight
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A brilliant move from Europe.
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In all of history peace has only ever been achieved by being strong enough to deter would be conquerors. Without deterrence Russia would crush Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine whilst threatening all of Europe. The US would take Canada, Greenland. NK would take South Korea. China would take Taiwan.
The world has never been free of evil powerful men who would take from their neighbors. What you think looks like peace has only ever been most of the situations being stable based in large part on people's willingness to murder people who would come to murder and take from them. If you aren't actually willing to fight you won't find yourself safe very long.
Military aid between nations creates stability by drastically increasing the cost of attacking one party lest an empire expand by taking one bite at a time and becoming strong enough to threaten larger neighbors in the process.
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yeah, that would have been an even better idea, 3 years ago.
Day 1 of the invasion, cut literally all economic ties with Russia and put 3% GDP into defense across the EU. -
Military industrial complex obvsly
