Rancid wrote:These are people that don't know how to stand up to bullies.
We call them cowards.
Also, useful idiots like Tim Pool.
The world is full of bullies. Western leaders are bullies themselves, sure their direct behaviour is not usually as bad or questionable as a Xi or a Putin, but they ally with people, like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, who are as bad, might even be worse if they got the chance. Even Benjamin Netanyahu, which Biden and Harris want to continue to supply with massive amounts of weapons has been described as a little bit of a bully.
The West, NATO 1.0 when into Crimea, in alliance with the Ottoman genociders in 1853. Not to bully of course, but supposedly to maintain the balance of power. Their attempts to pull Prussia and Austria into the war, succeded in breaking the Russia-Austria alliance. This actually undermined the balance of power, weakened Austria and enabled the rise of Prussia. Leading to the loss of Alsace Lorraine in 1871.
We must restore the old borders said the Liberals, even though the people of Alsace were not French. Through the alliance of encirclement with Russia and later with Joseph Stalin, by 1950 once the dust had settled from World War 2, they had Alsace Lorraine securely back and accepted as French by Germans. And they only lost East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, , Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic states, China, Mongolia, North Korea and parts of Vietnam to Communism in the process.