noemon wrote:
Putin's Russia is the primary funder/partner of all neonazi organisations in Europe and the US and possibly globally.
https://www.justsecurity.org/68420/conf ... -extremism
Okay, noted, thanks.
noemon wrote:
Why is Putin provoking and encircling Europe by bombing every country that expresses a desire to join the EU?
Should NATO bomb every country that expresses a desire to join the CSTO?
Evidently NATO should do that as legitimately as Putin in your dictionary because that would be falling into the Russian trap and playing into Putin's hands so with no fault of its own.
Ehhhh, I'm not going to get *that* wrapped-up in the intricacies of such geopolitics -- it's not my concern.
What I *will* say is that this is a geopolitical *rebuffing* of Western predation, which is fair in-and-of-itself.
Also the Ukraine EU / NATO / whatever membership is just a *formality*, as others have noted -- things are chummy-enough as they were, anyway.
Your second question is really a *strawman*, though, because this *isn't* a retro-Cold-War superpower showdown -- there's no *equivalency* in the scales involved, so then it's necessarily primarily *diplomatic* / geopolitical.
You're *evading* the *original* question / issue, which is why can't NATO just back the fuck off -- if everything is so purportedly even-handed and whatever.