yogthos

In the grand scheme of things I agree, the US wouldn't have respected European sovereignty either way.

European leaders, if they can even be called that, abandoned even the pretense of a rules based world in their eagerness to serve as obedient vassals. By supporting the blatant violation of international law in Gaza, they shattered the very principles that could have shielded them from the same fate.

Europe has actively dismantled the very institutions that could protected it from the predatory ambitions of stronger powers. By embracing "might makes right," Europe has forfeited its moral authority when the same logic is turned against it. The US will exploit the current state of European weakness mercilessly, reducing it to a dependent appendage, stripped of autonomy and dignity.

Europe stands on the precipice of its own century of humiliation that it's marching into with eyes wide open. It's is no longer a player at the table of global power, and now finds itself on the menu.

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All article 5 says is that members have to consider what level of support they're going to provide. It does not stipulate that member countries have to be involved militarily.

The funny part here is that 90k is far below 500k+ they were claiming this whole time.

Well, the IMF and the World Bank seem to disagree with you. Maybe you should let them know your new fangled economic theory though.

The Mercy of Gods https://bookwyrm.social/book/1794611/s/the-mercy-of-gods

Unfortunately, people living in the west seem to be incapable of internalizing this simple fact.

Apparently you can't even do basic math. Russian population is 140 million, and the total size of Russian army is 1.5 million, the casualties according to the only western source that provides any methodology is around 88k. If you think that's going to have a significant impact on Russia overall then you're delusional. https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng-trl

Meanwhile, absolutely hilarious you think Russian economy is some sort of a Potemkin village that's got all the economists at the IMF and World Bank fooled. You keep on waiting there for Russian collapse, I'm sure it'll happen right after China collapses.

The leader of divided and failing colonizer nations seems more accurate.

As the article above explains, Russia alone is massively outproducing all of the west because Russia kept the state owned industry from USSR in tact. Meanwhile, the fact that DPRK can outproduce Europe should be another cause for concern for y'all.