cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/46451542
Several NATO powers have pledged a total of $1.5 billion to cover the cost of US weapons packages
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/46451542
Several NATO powers have pledged a total of $1.5 billion to cover the cost of US weapons packages
The US fucked us so bad. They started this entire shit show by persisting on expanding Nato after the Iraq war, even though Merkel and Sarkozy both said that it would lead to war. Putin stated publicly that Nato expansion would be interpreted as an existential threat, and still the US pushed. They spend billions on pro US propaganda via USAid and the NED (just look up Red lines not to cross Zelenskiy, which is basically an open thread from the US to Ukraine not to sign a peace deal or there would be „civil unrest“).
And even during the peace talks in Istanbul, they convinced (or coerced) Ukraine not to sign it „hey we’ll have your back you can win this war, trust us, we have never cynically abandoned proxies before“. And now they let the Europeans pay for it and the Ukrainians die for it.
Yes, Russias attack on Ukraine was illegal, but the war was also preventable. And I have a hard time to believe that the Finlandization of Ukraine would have been worse than the complete destruction of it. Especially for all the man that have been killed or maimed for a preventable and doomed war from the beginning.
Nice try tankie.
Merkel literally said that adding Ukraine to Nato would cause war, and here we are. Is Merkel a „Tankie“?