RE: Russia and Ukraine
February 22, 2022 at 12:05 am
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2022 at 12:06 am by Anomalocaris.)
(February 21, 2022 at 9:36 pm)brewer Wrote: If this goes thru is there a chance that the US can annex Baja California? I mean, come on, they're basically americans anyway.
the basis for why Russia wants Ukraine is a very real security concern for a country that has not resigned itself to falling much further down the geopolitical influence ladder. The fact that the west thinks Russia can be dissuaded from addressing that concern through the simple expedient of delegitimsizing it in our own eyes is really the source of the problem.
Push a country that has the ability to address its concerns with violence too far and there will be blow back. This is what we see now.
This does not figure in the nicely canned narrative of peaceful world under US hegemony, but it is reality, and failure to act in accordance that reality will erode that hegemony faster than it could be repaired.
