sanman
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Total horseshit. NATO is mutual defense pact. It is not an offensive pact. It has not ever unilaterally launched offensive operations against any Soviet or Russian interest or state. It poses no direct threat to Russia so long as it doesn't militarily attack any of it's members.
Bullshit. NATO discarded its defensive charter when it attacked, occupied and dismembered a non-NATO Slavic country back in 1999.
NATO declared that its goal was to eventually incorporate Ukraine and Georgia into the organization, proactively pushing itself up to Russia's doorstep.
But it's high time we dispense with the cognizant dissonance surrounding what Putin's true motives really are and that is colonial expansion via the steady reacquisition and control of areas formerly of the USSR. Whether Putin is actually crazy or not doesn't really matter. What matters is understanding the internal rationality of his action to see the salient points of it as relates to not only Ukraine, but beyond it and to the US and the West. Time we recognize that Putin's ambitions are global in nature rather than merely local. We tend to avert our gaze from radicalism. We don't want to believe that the worst is possible. On another continent perhaps but not here. That Russia will never attack the US or it's NATO allies when the reality is that it already is and has been engaging in attacks upon us and them.
"Avert gaze from radicalism" -- you mean like when Biden ran away from the Taliban with pants around ankles, and chose to blame it on Trump? Buck Never Stops With Biden, especially not over radicalism.
Biden has suddenly just now sent a high-level delegation to Taiwan -- they're over there right now -- and they're firmly telling the Taiwanese to start making as many conciliatory gestures to Beijing as possible, to reduce chances of China invading Taiwan. They want to appease the Dragon so that they can now turn back toward fighting the Bear.
You gotta give credit to Xi Jinping, for instigating Putin into invading Ukraine. Xi's a clever guy, and knows exactly how to deflect America away from confronting him. He knows Americans very well. Bunch of Asian kids dying in Asia is just another Oxfam commercial -- but white kids dying in Europe is a call to arms -- "whoa, shit just got real!"
Xi knows not only how to change the focus of headlines, but also how to reset the narrative in the US. He knows that corporate America will help promote that Bear-first narrative, because they're heavily invested in China, and have a strong incentive to keep US-China ties smooth for commercial reasons. Confront radicalism, my ass.