From the Financial Times

"Trump plans to withdraw troops from the Baltics and parts of Western Europe - a key Putin demand - making former Soviet nations a prime target for Russian attacks"

Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovilė Šakalienė: “Putin won’t change. We have 3–4 years to fully prepare for a major war in Europe.”

"The next few weeks will decide the course of the world for the foreseeable future."

#NATO #cdnpoli #canada #paywalled @chadbornbsky

ft.com/content/11f121f9-391c-4

@gemelliz

Here's An NO PAYWALL version

:archive.ph/UTpRt#selection-247

"Many Europeans will balk at these ideas, dismissing them as impossible. But they need to understand that their freedom is now at stake. Vance was right about that. Just not in the way he thought"

Ukraine, Middle East, Greenland, Baltics, Canada, Panama, African Continent, Parts of South America
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USA, Russia, North Korea,
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Trump shakes and stirs
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☹️

@Snowshadow

@SnowshadowII

Sorry, but I disagree with the FT author when he wrote this, and all subsequent chain of thoughts:

What Vance did was to subvert the ideas of freedom, democracy and shared values that have underpinned the western alliance for 80 years.

What #Vance did was to rudely but accurately describing the behaviour of European capitals towards #Russia imperial ambitions over the last decade. Europe not only lost decisiveness, but entirely lost the moral compass - as a reminder, as Russian army invaded #Crimea and #Donbas in 2014, European politicians and media consistently spoke about “pro-Russian separatists”.

As #Netherlands mourned almost 300 people shot down by Russians in #MH17 in 2014, Berlin negotiated Nord Stream 2 to further pour money into Russian weapons while France sold them thermal imaging for latest weapons systems. And this continued for well over a decade, until Putin attacked. But even in January 2022 Berlin refused UK flights with defensive weapons (!) directed to Germany in a gesture that was just as petty as disgusting.

Then the same capitals consistently blocked supplies of any heavy weapons to Ukraine and cared more about stability of Russia than existence of #Ukraine. Only after a year or so the countries somehow changed their stance and started actually supporting Ukraine, but at a rate that merely allows it to survive and nothing more. There was lots of words, but very little actions.

What Vance said was rude, but I don’t think European leaders left him any options after these 10+ years, and it seem to have worked. If it had worked, it means it was justified.

@gemelliz @Snowshadow

@kravietz @SnowshadowII @Snowshadow @gemelliz I beg to differ in the following point

The #Biden administration was also drip-fed crucial weapons systems (too late and too little) after the outbreak of #UkraineRussiaWar with #sullivan repeatedly stating the fear of a Russian escalation or a breakup of the Russian empire. The #USA was reluctant to send long-range weapons to #Ukraine enabling it to mount an effective defense against Russian airstrikes, preferring to see civilians bombed

@Secunergy

Biden absolutely did that, for which he was fiercely criticised by Kellogg:

https://americafirstpress.org/an-america-first-approach-to-national-security/

In general, none of these administrations had any idea to end the war - or how to prevent it in the first place. Trump did, or at least he pretends he has, which is already a qualitative change and gives some hope - that’s what many people from Ukraine military also said - better quick death under Trump than slow resistance under Biden. Of course, Trump may not have any plan but so does Putin and Trump at least has some resources.

@SnowshadowII @Snowshadow @gemelliz

@kravietz
> better quick death under Trump than slow resistance under Biden
Not a great idea! Trump's advisors are already openly discussing lifting sanctions — which would be the worst possible move. Pooteen has managed to convince everyone that Russia's resources are limitless and time is on his side, but they aren't. Russian army is a mercenary army, it costs a ton and the economy is already showing obvious cracks.
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This is the first post from you I see in this thread on my instance: social.librem.one/@m0xee/11402
So there was no part I could understand or not 🤷
If you don't want to be notified about replies to a thread, you can mute it instead of relying on others' "understanding".

@m0xee if I mute it I lose the entire thread. Sorry I yelled at you but I asked earlier.

@Snowshadow
Ha-ha-ha, yeah, muted thread gets nearly impossible to find, unless you bookmark it.
I'm never against removing someone from mentions if they ask me — but yes, being yelled at out of the blue is not what I expected 😅
Federation sometimes works in weird ways, you can never be sure you see all the posts in a thread — some replies get retrieved only when you start interacting with others.

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