(April 28, 2026 at 4:22 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote: Not only that. After WWII there was this Marshall Plan to help Europe rebuild itself. Thanks to that plan no new type of fascism rose in Europe. On the contrary, they started rebuilding their economy thus becoming very good trade partners to the US until January 2020. This time the defeated sides (Germany and Japan) were not humiliated. Instead they were put under US military umbrella and soon became the world’s second and third economies.
I think in 1991 big corporations wanted to punish Russia for being a non-capitalist power for so many decades. In my own country some business people used terms like “third Rome” or “New sick man of Europe” to describe the Russian federation.
What I am saying is that Reagan and Gorbatchev had a good start. So could we do something to Russia something that is similar to what West Germans did to East Germans after 1989 or could we treat Russia like the EU treated (and is still treating) East-European countries?
After all: Russia did lose a war. It was a cold war but its situation was still similar to the defeated countries of WWI.
Well, too late now, innit?
Boru
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