• Jack Riddle@sh.itjust.works
    106·
    5 months ago

    Those damn imperialists providing weapons to a sovereign country in order to protect itself from it’s imperialist neighbor trying to annex it!

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
        60·
        5 months ago

        Multiple things can be true. Both of these claims are true.

        • It benefits NATO countries to curb the expansion of a rival power without losing a single soldier.

        • Assisting in a sovereign country in resisting annexation by a genocidal occupier is a good thing.

        You don’t always have to suffer to help someone else, some situations can be win-win.

        • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
          1·
          5 months ago

          It benefits NATO countries to curb the expansion of a rival power

          “Rival” power is a matter of choice though, isn’t it? The EU could as easily have chosen to align with Russia as with they’ve done with the US. In the same way that both France and Germany are powers but they’re not really rival. EU should have gone its own way after 1991, NATO stopped making sense after the communist block was dissolved, and the fact that it kept growing and moving further towards the east in violation of the agreements reached last century, kinda shows that it’s not a defensive alliance as much as it is subservience to US’s geopolitical interests.

          This isn’t to say the EU should be aligned to Russia or that the war in Ukraine isn’t primarily Putin’s fault, or that there shouldn’t be a military alliance in Europe, I’m just saying the US shouldn’t belong to it, let alone dictate its terms.