Re:Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'
by YeGoblynQueenne on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @06:49AM
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>> No one sane in Europe is interested to start a war with Russia.
Sane, no, but Macron for instance suggested the West should send boots on the ground in Ukraine, and while he's clearly unhinged he was until recently the President of the second most powerful EU country and an important nuclear Nato member (although French people I've met were dismissive about the French nuclear deterrent; "it can bleach corals", I was told).
And don't forget that the far right (to put it politely) is rising in Europe, including in France and in Germany were they are the second most powerful political power and possibly soon the first in France. Do you know what happened last time the far right was rising in Europe?
When we're talking about nuclear war as a possible future I don't think it hurts to hedge al the bets ever.
NATO threat to Russia is internal fear-mongering propaganda and I have no idea why Mearsheimer and others talk about it with a serious face. We're not in the middle of 20th century anymore.
On one hand we have EU/US/NATO intelligence saying Kiev will fall in 72 hours to the 2nd best army in the world.
And then on the other hand we must believe Mearsheimer that Putin really fears that EU/US/NATO would start a war out of the blue with a country that has 45% of world's nuclear arsenal in the middle of Europe?
Give me a break.
No one sane in Europe is interested to start a war with Russia.
Europe and especially Merkel have spent the last few decades turning Russia into an important trading partner and tying them heavily into the European market. This worked well for them with the economic union post World War 2 (that turned into the European Union) which stopped wars in Europe for almost a century.
Similar approach was taken with Russia, but sadly it didn't work.
Russia has every right to fear NATO and make plans around it. But to say Russia invaded Ukraine because of NATO (or nazis) is nonsense.
I don't believe you'll even find any Russian opposition/anti-government journalist/scientist/economist or politician talk the "NATO threat" reasoning seriously. They know what Putin has been doing to their country for the last 20+ years, and it has nothing to do with NATO.