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that ship has sailed monsieur

ah yes, a black swan event 0_0

not a chance that this is on moral grounds

by “you” i meant the reader not you the poster, just to be clear

i am loathe to give these goverments in particular any credit at all, doing less than the minimum after de facto full support for many months

there does appear to be a vibe shift though and i am certainly glad for every person who survives because of it, but i refuse to give these criminals any credit

not doing shit except talk is a concrete action, i agree

or should we talk about the weapons these three states alone have sent so far?

they are running a fucking game on you

My bet is that the opportunity cost for imposing new and meaningful constraints on China is already too high and this has begun to clarify for US elites - basically the Asia pivot is sunk cost in the form it was conceived of during the Obama admin, as full spectrum dominance is no longer a realistic goal at any price.

Why then cut Europe loose by allowing NATO to fall apart if you can strip them for parts in the medium term using that tried and tested trojan horse?

Therefore, if we suppose China will remain on the board in its present form, the maintenance of a heavy handed material and ideological infrastructure to prevent Europe from economically pivoting to China, particularly once the US ramps up cannibalisation of alliance members, would appear to be a necessity. This is one lesson from the last few months for me.

As an ideological project NATO works amazingly, even Europeans populations are still bought in. It’s like the final American postwar power projection tool that is functioning just as it was intended to in 1949.

welcome to the big show, where debt brakes are judiciously enforced for social spending for 15 years and immediately suspended for lockheed’s big bertha

it’s the perfect plan: you vaporise welfare spending and make some quick cash on the way out via defence stocks, with the potentially outstanding bonus of sending a few million troublemakers head first into a meat grinder next decade and all this in one masterful stroke

I would just be (positively) surprised if the Americans allow NATO to fall apart in the medium term as it would seem strategically foolish in my view given how succesful it’s been in completely subjugating the Europeans (remember Gaullism?), but yes I agree in the long term the economics are against the Western powers and it shouldn’t really matter what they do

europe will lose what’s left of its tattered social security nets to juice american defence stocks for subpar equipment one last time, no question about that either

I hear what you’re saying, but I would argue it’s a ploy to enforce the 5% NATO target knowing the eurocrats always roll over

it would still seem like a bridge too far at the current juncture for the americans to let NATO fail and concede unopposed security hegemony over the EU, a rebalancing to make them carry costs makes much more sense to me and I view it in that light (though I obviously take your point about the balance of military industrial capacities)

also there are rumblings that this US admin is beginning to accept multipolarity; if that is true surely that reframes the strategic outlook and calls a full pivot to asia into question

surely this is a bluff

I don’t mean this in a confrontational way at all and I’m no putin stan, but in what way do you mean?

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I am getting VERY tired of this 50k number being cited every article, it has barely moved in like a year despite the fact that the bombing has re-escalated

it’s literally disinformation to continue citing that number at this stage