Russia does not decide if West can deploy troops to Ukraine, NATO chief says (www.lemonde.fr)
from Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 18:31
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 19:11 next collapse

Doesn’t look like they were deciding whether NATO sends in troops. It looks like they were deciding to bomb any NATO troops that entered Ukrainian territory.

And now NATO states get to decide whether they’re eager to expand the scope of the conflict even further. My money is on a bunch of terminally online hype-beasts on the internet screaming “Hell yeah!”, while the more conservative and conflict averse financial and military leadership in Europe drag their heels.

That’s assuming the AfD doesn’t take over the German federal government entirely and straight up align itself with Russia.

HowRu68@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 19:35 next collapse

with Russia.

and USA.

The Afd is also linked to USA ( Pete Hegseth/ Musk) and especially via the Heritage Foundation. The one which wrote Project 2025 ( or Mein Kampf edition 25).

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 19:43 next collapse

Mein Kampf edition 25

Sadly, we’ve regressed. Mein Kampf was written from prison. This shit was written from Curtis Yarvin’s substack.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de on 05 Sep 20:16 collapse

That’s just being indirectly linked to Russia

HowRu68@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 20:23 collapse

What are you talking about? Afd has direct links to Russia, FSB & China . Here some quick links.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de on 05 Sep 20:33 collapse

Yes. And you said links to the US/heritage foundation. Which is just Russia with a paper mask

HowRu68@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 20:42 next collapse

Which is just Russia with a paper mask

Ah, then I misunderstood your “That” reference.

Could be, but unclear. The history of what we call Fascism now is very old. Could be two parties working together or one for the other. It seems though afaik, that their agenda to dismantle democracy coincide per they both being autocratic. Do you perchance have any links w/info?

plyth@feddit.org on 05 Sep 20:56 collapse

Why would the US billionaires go along if Trump would be controlled by Russia?

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de on 05 Sep 21:05 collapse

Why wouldn’t they? Lots of money to be made

plyth@feddit.org on 05 Sep 21:09 collapse

If Russia and China take over, much less money is to be made.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de on 05 Sep 21:15 collapse

Enough money to be made until then. Long term planning is for suckers

plyth@feddit.org on 06 Sep 04:26 collapse

Take Bezos, everything will be sold on Alibaba, or Gates, Windows will not be the default operating system. The oil companies will lose their fields.

The billionaires will become millionaires. Even if they can have record profits for 10 years, they are not dumb enough to choose that path forward if they lose everything in 20.

angrystego@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 09:30 collapse

This is an uncommonly realistic take.

yucandu@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 19:50 next collapse

Is it really that hard to assassinate world leaders?

nico198X@piefed.europe.pub on 05 Sep 20:08 next collapse

no. but they don't want to kill each other. they want to kill us.

Zorque@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 22:20 collapse

They want to control us.

ZombieMantis@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 20:36 next collapse

Unfortunately, nukes.

PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works on 05 Sep 21:05 next collapse

If they’re a madman former KGB agent, backed with Nuclear weapons, then yes.

sturmblast@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 21:06 collapse

It’s not hard to do that, it’s the repercussions that are the problem.

timewarp@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 20:23 next collapse

The MIC really wants to continue their proxy war.

FishFace@lemmy.world on 10 Sep 22:18 collapse

What, Russia’s Military-Industrial Complex, which started this war by invading a sovereign country?

sturmblast@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 21:06 next collapse

I’m not so sure about that?

lietuva@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 04:43 collapse

The audacity of Russia and lack of power in EU. When they sent troops, they did not ask for any permission, they just did it. But when there’s talks of sending western forces to maintain ceasefire we are seeking for permission from Russia and debating whether such is needed at all.

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Sep 09:39 collapse

Being very much a consensus based talk-shop of competing interests and varied points of view is both the EU’s weakness and it’s greatest strength: it takes ages for it to act but when it does, it does so in a far more organized way, with more staying power and better long term results than the “rush in, break shit up, rush out leaving it all broken” of players like the US (as seen in places like Iraq and Afghanistan).

The “American Way” has a lousy track record of delivering stability by itself (did it ever manage to do so after WWII?) whilst the EU Way has a lousy track record of actually going all the way to the stage of actually doing something (though it tends to act in ways other than the military).

In the long run I think the EU’s way delivers much better outcomes for everybody involved, if and when it does manage to get around to actually act in an assertive way.

In summary, then EU is pretty shit when it comes to immediate reaction and at actually doing anything but it works in long-running situations which are complex to untangle and creating long term stable outcomes.

A good example of the EU Way is the handling of the break up of Yugoslavia, though one could say it was more a cooperation of the American Way and the EU Way.