Comment by The_Colonel
2 years ago
Learning to live is arming the eastern NATO border to the teeth. Russia has never stopped trying to expand westward, is still very far from giving up on its imperialism and strength is the only language it understands.
Not sure how much (more) arming to the teeth of NATO is needed when France / UK / USA have thermonuclear ICBMs.
The problem is what to do with the likes of Georgia and Ukraine (which has been deeply regretting giving up nukes against Russian/US/UK "protection" for some years now).
Then you will have a permanent war in Europe, get used to it and make yourself comfortable.
Can you explain? European (NATO) countries will "provoke" Russia into invading by securing their internationally recognized borders?
So far, we have seen the opposite pattern of Russia messing with countries which didn't make it into NATO in time.
There is no good way out of the situation where both sides are armed to the teeth. The best bet is a political failure of one of the sides.
If that does not happen, these sabers will be rattling from time to time. If Russia's (and China's) immediate borders are packed with countries armed to their teeth, there would be wars.
Buffer states happen for a reason.
I believe USA kind of understands this (see how they reacted to Cuba) and EU surely understands this too (see how Sweden reacts to any signs of Russian militarization), but they have trouble projecting it on other countries or still believing they can coerce these countries into "dealing with it".
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We'll have another cold war, carefully watching each other like Koreans on both sides of the DMZ do. Russia likes frozen conflicts so that what they'll get, until it collapses again like the USSR did and like all empires do. The trouble with that is a bunch of unstable dictators with nukes instead of one czar with nukes.