• Oh and of course their big focus is CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA, won’t help much though. IMHO the war in Ukraine is all about CHINA. We’ve managed to wrench the EU away from Russia but pushed them closer to Asia. Peripheral countries broadly support Russia in this war. I’d say we are in a weaker position than the end of 2021 to do WWIII. What do I know though? 😖

    • It abolutely is, Russia is the hinge in the emerging multipolar world because of BRICKS, because supplying resources and weapons outside of US control to much of antiimperialist block and because being somewhat a middleman between China and a some other countries, mostly India.

      Flipping Russia to the west side would allow USA to create a situation where China is suddenly against most of the world.

  • Soviet Snake
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    151 year ago

    NOOOOOOOO! NATO IS A DEFENSIVE COALITION YOU STUPID TANKIE!! RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION YOU ORC!! SLAVA IKRINI!1;1!

  • Yeah this is exactly what happened in Iraq, it was even called Coalition of the Willing or something similar. As if it wasn’t obvious that NATO is not a defensive alliance but just an imperialist racket (for its entire history NATO country was attacked literally once and NATO didn’t even intervened then).

  • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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    71 year ago

    I mean, hasn’t this always been the case?

    When countries like Vietnam and Venezuela were “”“attacked”“” (read, their own citizens got fed up with their government’s shit and decided to have a go at socialism), the vanguards of “democracy” NATO definitely felt the need to “save” them (which, the people of a country saying GTFO to a capitalist government and trying to implement socialism is probably the most democratic thing possible).

    • @EnchantedWhetstones@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      51 year ago

      NATO has never been p u r e l y d e f e n s i v e . Pretty much the only difference I see is people stop being able to post the “evil grinning Polish wojack pointing at the ARTICLE FIVE button” meme. Making this a net victory for NATO? I think? My honest read: this is a declaration of intent to go hog wild.