Comment by tsimionescu
4 days ago
That doesn't make it in any way acceptable. No one accepts (nor should they accept) Russia doing the same in its sphere of influence, for example.
4 days ago
That doesn't make it in any way acceptable. No one accepts (nor should they accept) Russia doing the same in its sphere of influence, for example.
Sure it might be unacceptable but realpolitik and realism has little to do with anyones moral or ethical principles.
Realpolitik can only ever be an explanation, not a justification. We don't need to accept this from our leaders, especially if we live in any of the more powerful nations of the globe.
The last US president to seriously question their country's foreign policy got their head blown off. It goes without saying that Trump is not a serious person.
Everyone wants to live in the most powerful nation of the globe. Nobody wants to acknowledge what it takes to be the most powerful nation in the world.
It seems we are accepting Russia enacting regime change, though.
Even if a peace deal is reached, and even if that is part of the peace deal, that doesn't mean we are accepting it: we [Europeans] fought (mostly economically) a good 5 years to try to prevent it, and lost. Accepting this would have meant not providing any aid to Ukraine and instead just saying "Russia has a clear doctrine of not allowing NATO control of the Ukraine region" as if this justified and their actions.
You didn't fought, you got sacrificed at the alter of US interests.
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Sorry, that was meant as a statement on the US regime, not the Europeans.