The start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Part 1)
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Sam Wright21 said:It's also true that the USA has little interest in seeing a powerhouse European Union emerge.
Russia doesn't want a strong EU, and frankly, neither does the EU.
And then there's NATO—what is its actual purpose, and will it even bother to act?
Seen this before. It's Putin's tactic, straight out of Hitler's playbook: 1. mass the troops, 2. gaslight everyone about your motives, 3. strike.
NATO mobilized 40,000 soldiers today to be on standby in countries bordering the conflict. This probably doesn't count the NATO troops already stationed at current bases (like those 8k in the Baltics) or the national militaries. The USA has also prepared a NATO strike force of about 5-8k to deploy in Europe.
According to the "official script," Ukraine gets armed while Russia pretends it's fighting an "invisible enemy" against its own roots. NATO will likely just sit around waiting for Kyiv to fall or for some even bigger disaster to hit. And then what? Another summit, another meeting, another bunch of empty statements that’ll probably just lead to everyone sitting at a negotiating table for another ten years... yeah, democracy.