Could? We are way past that.
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This is what happens when you have a US administration that's more concerned with its own interests than with supporting its allies in the face of aggression from Russia. Macron is right to be wary - it's time for the US to step up and provide real support to Ukraine, not just empty words
The thing is supporting Ukraine and keeping the current world order and its alliances intact is at the core of US interests.
The US administation isn't even concerned with its own interests. It's willing to burn everything to the ground for autocracy, in the most Pyrrhic of "victories."
That's been like every administration. The US has pretty much only cared about its own interests.
In the past, the US assumed it's allies were it's own interests. Now it's about how much money can be bribed.
more concerned with its own interests than with supporting its allies
You're just describing Realpolitik, which we've been practicing since at least Nixon
Is it still realpolitik if they're going directly against the interests of their own country, and only focusing on their own personal interests?
That's more just "corruption". But we've been practicing corrupt politics since... checks history textbook... ah, President George Washington.
The problem with the Ukraine/Russia war is that there's a ton of economic interests geared towards arming belligerents, clearing out native peoples from their land, and looting Ukraine for the benefit of external plutocrats. One could argue this is a problem with every war, particularly in the 400 years since we've developed a capitalist form of enterprise. We're just doing to Ukraine and the surrounding Mediterranean region what Spain, France, and Britain were doing to North America centuries earlier.
That kind of conquest and control is both profitable for the ranking leadership of the invading countries and broadly beneficial for the public at-large who get salaries and investment returns as a consequence of the economic activity of shooting and looting.
So, now we're describing "imperialism".
Yeah, that seemed pretty obvious. Even to the most hardcore MAGA it'd probably be obvious, though they'd probably call it a good deal... a GREAT deal.
The people currently in charge of US foreign policy have more than made it clear how two-faced and opportunistic (and fascistic) they intended to be.
Eu should retaliate by harming the USA proxy in the middle east
Typical.
Yes. The current US is untrustworthy.
Te previous one too imo
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