German weapons-maker Rheinmetall opened Europe’s largest munitions plant on Wednesday, a move hailed as boosting Western defences by NATO chief Mark Rutte.
German weapons-maker Rheinmetall opened Europe’s largest munitions plant on Wednesday, a move hailed as boosting Western defences by NATO chief Mark Rutte.
It is a hybrid war with a lose lose lose situation for Ukraine. Win, lose, keep fighting, nothing is good. Seeing this like a sport event with teams to root for ignores how entwined the situation is.
Russia invaded Ukraine and right now, Ukraine has to fight Russia in order to survive. Nothing cloudy about that.
Everyone will have an opinion on the question whether they want Ukraine to succeed. Russia has a clear opinion, I have a clear opinion,…
The “team” I root for is fighting for its survival.
It’s your choice whether you want to root for them to survive or don’t.
It’s your choice to frame this as a competition of teams or not.
What will be the outcome if Ukraine wins?
Have you seen the surveillance that is coming up for the EU and the tendency to dissolve the nation states? Kyiv is fighting to be ruled by Brussels in exchange for Moscow. Ukraine won’t survive in the EU either.
Trying to equate the atrocities* Russia has so far conducted on Ukrainian soil and with Ukrainian people with being subject to EU regulations? Really?
*at least those we know of right now… who knows what else will surface up…
That’s not the comparison. It’s 2014 Ukraine compared to 2030 EU.
That’s exactly the choice Ukraine is facing right now: give in to Russia’s constant violent aggression and cease to exist or securing independence within the framework of ‘Western’ nations and finally freeing itself from the poisonous Russian influence and oppression.
Only that 2030 or 2040 EU will be much like Russia today.