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this is practically a child’s view of the world. good guy vs bad guy. Russia = bad, NATO = good. plus, someone should tell her she has it completely backwards: ending russia is kinda natos entire thing

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

many Europeans are not content...

I don't think that's true. I'm an eastern European, and speaking anecdotally, support for Ukraine and consequently NATO is absolutely surging. Looking at polls, it seems that 85% of people in my country have a positive view of NATO atm.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thanks for the context! looking at the wealthier countries further from Russia (Germany, France) they seem to oppose NATO support for this conflict. only 46% of Germans support sending weapons

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Germany is a special case for this. Post WW2, they've had a strong pacifism streak. It was absolutely shocking at the time that they decided to send offensive weapons at all. Would have been unthinkable 2 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Personally I still don’t think Germany should even be allowed to have weapons in the first place

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but people love to hate Russians, and does it really matter if the people like or dislike nato? I've got a suspicion that working people in your country have as little influence on nato actions as the workers anywhere else in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely agree that it doesn't really matter at the end of the day. Politicians will use polls that are useful to them and ignore those that aren't. I was replying to the point that this war is fomenting anti-NATO sentiment, which I don't think is true.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I also think you're right.