Europe’s CEOs Eye Shift in Spending Plans Toward North America

Re:Europe’s CEOs Eye Shift in Spending Plans Toward North Am... by _kbh_ on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:52AM (#36043521)

> I'll never understand why we recently pretend that we haven't been poking the bear.

I never understand why people like you think Russia has the right to decide what alliance countries get into, and why Russia has the right to unilaterally abandon and go against international agreements that they sign (like the Budapest memorandum).

In reality Ukraine had zero chance of NATO membership and it still doesn't until far into the future, Russias reasons for invading clearly have nothing to do with Ukraine unless you can show me the tanks rolling towards Finland and Sweden right now.

So please tell me why does Russia get to roll through Ukraine and rape and torture its citizens with impunity?.

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Re:Europe’s CEOs Eye Shift in Spending Plans Toward North Am... by dmpk2k on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @09:07AM (#36043700)

> I never understand why people like you think Russia has the right to decide what alliance countries get into, and why Russia has the right to unilaterally abandon and go against international agreements that they sign

Except I do not. That presents a false dichotomy, and a remarkably simplistic one at that.

Nothing you wrote changes what I posted. I leave it to the reader to decide what to make of the 2008 text above, and the events that transpired afterwards.

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Re:Europe’s CEOs Eye Shift in Spending Plans Toward North Am... by _kbh_ on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @09:36AM (#36044051)

> Except I do not. That presents a false dichotomy, and a remarkably simplistic one at that.

In this case you can only be against Russias invasion of Ukraine which I assume yo wholeheartedly are.

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