Subj : Russia's Defeat
To : Kaelon
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Aug 01 2023 05:12 pm
Re: Russia's Defeat
By: Kaelon to Arelor on Tue Aug 01 2023 11:00 am
> Similarly, Russia may have made a financially catastrophic miscalculation in > orks and cryptocurrency to survive, but it has achieved / restored economic >
This is a problem I have with the modern Western style in general: we think we
are the center of the world and we believe we can destroy somebody just by
refusing to be their friend.
I think this problem comes from modern Cancel Culture. We as a civilitation
have discovered we can destroy Jack if we convince enough people that Jack is afilthy fascist so they don't buy stuff from it. The issue is that then we
try to translate this to higher spheres of politics and it just doesn't scale.
The West has this idea that we are the most important people on the planet, so
if we exclude you from Eurovision and our trade systems, your country has no
more entertainment and no more trading going on. This fantasy falls appart
quickl�y once you realize there are more humans living in the Indochina area
than out of it.
RE: Everybody likes the NATO arrangement; there are strong anti NATO movements
in member countries. Since NATO members tend to be (nominally) democracies, I
think this is not to be dismissed. In fact a number of anti-NATO people I can
think of would use your wording as an example of why NATO is to be avoided: it
has NATO members pay protection money/resources so America gets to be the
world's police (actually, the people I think of would rather say it has memberspay protection money so America gets to be an imperialistic power).
The only thing you need to know is that for Spain to get into NATO, it took thePresidential Candidate Felipe Gonz�lez to tell his voters that he would never
support a NATO deal in order to be elected, because nobody wanted to
participate in the NATO. Then he got placed into office and supported the NATO
deal anyway against the will of the voters.
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