Europe preps huge defense package in boost to Ukraine: "Never been seen"
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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
