Europe preps huge defense package in boost to Ukraine: "Never been seen"
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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
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The threat needs to be credible though. One bomb is not enough because it could be destroyed in a first strike without fear of a second strike.
One bomb won’t make it to Moscow. Air defense will take down a single attacking missile or plane.
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On the other hand, Hitler was able to steal power on 40% of the vote, and here in Czechia the communists pulled off a putsch with 30%. I'm not sure how many of the checks and balances they had already compromised by that point though.
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Fascinating
