Kinda like the U.S. But hey, we are a force for good.
US is not a pacifistic saint, I don’t claim anything like it.
I am just as aware of that as I am aware of why Russia feels threatened enough to use its military.
As an American I would simply prefer global peace and more trading. Settling the grudges of Europeans isn’t a priority for me or my son’s future. Keeping him out of a war is.
I also think you Finns are selling yourself short. Russia would need nukes to conquer Finland today. Your military is made for the task and one of the most capable forces in the world.
I was reading about your sniper forces over the weekend and was impressed by their culture of marksmanship fundamentals that don’t rely on technology. As poorly as steppe warfare has gone for Russia, nothing makes me believe they would fare better in subarctic forest warfare.
It would still kill a lot of Finns.
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How many people has the U.S. killed post WWll? Has any other country killed more? Why wouldn’t someone be critical of the U.S.? Was the destruction of the Nord stream pipeline a defensive act?
The U.S. are warmongers. Is that not obvious?
Why? We have States that are larger than European countries. You should be no more surprised by criticisms of U.S. policies than you are of European countries not wanting to give up their sovereignty.
Is there proof it was made by US?
US is not NATO though, it’s the biggest member, but not the only one. If you look how European leaders are speaking currently we don’t even expect US to help us if the war would come.
I respect this and agree. I’m not hoping for war. This mentality is also partly why the European leaders don’t fully trust the US as a military ally, and there is talk for unified European defense.
Yes it would. Russia wouldn’t have a chance, but I’d rather not see war at all.
Russia was our most important trading partner until 2014/2022. This hurts our economy a shit ton. If we would believe peaceful coexistence could work, we would go that route.
With the current development there will be no NATO. Europe needs to step up it’s defense then, or Russia will take half of the Europe under the iron curtain again.
Should have been that way since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Europe should certainly step up its defense. That may make universal healthcare less appealing to the @castoli1971’s of the world, though.
Yes. Seymour Hersh did a fine job exposing this and you have Biden mentioning it via a speech.
If the U.S. has spent over 200 billion helping to defend Ukraine who obviously isn’t a member of NATO, why wouldn’t they help current members of NATO? There are no resources for the U.S. to sink their imperialist teeth into?
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I just got done with Heather Cox Richardson’s daily propaganda, where she continues to lament Trump and his embrace of core American values.
She, too, laments the MAGA peace position, pointing out the “winning” nature of this war, safe in her little upscale enclave of Maine, where she is unaffected by everything I write about.
For all of the talk about the USA not doing enough for Europe, it begs the question of “what has Europe done for us?”
By my count, precisely zero Europeans have volunteered to guard our border with Mexico or even Canada, which is comparatively safe work compared to guarding the border of East and West Germany in the 1960s.
Millions of men just like my father have spent their teenage and young adult years guarding Europe, while Europeans find new ways to exhibit their disdain for our culture and people.
No European aid packages have made their way to Lewiston. Our downtown makes East Germany in the 1990s look like an advanced civilization.
Just look at a map. Had their plan of a quick conquest materialized, there is simply far less border for Russia to guard. Plus resources, of course.
That my father was stationed near the Fulda Gap in the 1960s was no coincidence.
I agree.
And NATO might need to update itself, like I said there is little trust left for US in Europe. There might be a new organization or something else in future.
I’m interested if there will be similar situation evolving in the pacific. US and China could find mutual understanding in certain things.
Europe looks like it is heading for some major ideological rifts of its own. That will be a bigger problem than Americans ending wars and once again promoting free speech. A stable USA, which we seem to be heading for sooner rather than later, will mostly be interested in stuff like IKEA furniture, Audis, and selling you cheeseburgers.
We’ve already acquired Finnish sauna technology and are manufacturing them here.
London is what, 40 percent British now? Im not talking skin color, but culture that includes black and Indian British. I’m unsure of other places, but to pretend that the British don’t define Britain is rather silly. It appears as though internationalism does, and it seems less like our WWII ally by the day.
Herr Starmer rules with quite the iron fist, with no sign of slowing down the social engineering.
10 years from now Europe will be a very different place, and I don’t see how all of the social engineering will make Europe safer at all.
I don’t agree but that’s okay.
It’s like saying that US will turn to dictatorship in the next 3 months or that there will be a imminent civil war in US. Wayy out of proportion.
This is true.
But not a valid reason for war. That’s imperialism.
It’s not so much that I don’t understand that certain geographies are easier to defend than others. It’s just terribly backward to think it’s worth it to go to war for that purpose. It’s preparing for a possible negative event in the future by making that bad thing happen now. It’s like burning your house down so it will be less flammable.
And this is more true today than ever when so much of warfare is airborne and hi tech.
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Not really, because a look at European demographics shows a glimpse into the future that media pundits tend to lack in their hot takes. As American Democrats were so fond of saying, demographics is destiny.
Luckily for us we recognized the threat and ended it before one party rule could be entrenched.
In simple terms, America is now stopping the engineered decline and appears to be poised to begin reversing it. Maybe not in my state right now, but in most states.
What type of domestic and foreign policy will come out of the UK and Germany 10 years from now? Who knows? It won’t be British or Germans setting their own destiny anymore.
Just as Mainers are no longer choosing Maines leaders, it has massive impacts when one group wishes to vote themselves more stuff, and has the power to do so.
I read recently that 1 in 4 Swedish girls born today will likely be raped. I didn’t verify it, but there is definitely a lot more rape for society to put up with.
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I have said several times now that immigration policies are being tightened all over Europe. Sweden, France and Germany has had their share of problems caused by immigration and you can look how Europe is responding.
I don’t think immigration will cause Europe to grumble, neither will Russia.
Yep. Exactly why the U.S. shouldn’t form binding, permanent alliances with other countries.
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