Subj : Russia's Defeat
To   : Kaelon
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Jul 31 2023 17:46:22

  Re: Russia's Defeat
  By: Kaelon to Arelor on Mon Jul 31 2023 07:55 am

 > The European Union is a problematic experiment, not least of which is the bu > quential rise of the Far Right in the Mediterranean, especially your native  > 
 > NATO, on the other hand, has been an enduring tool that has prevented the Co > European states ensure there is an economic pay-for-play to keep the engine  > n NATO in the next 36 months, it's probably going to remain the governing gl
By the way, I dare say that the existence of the European Union has pacified
the Eurozone more than, say, the existence of NATO, by virtuoe of a known
phenomenom: people who trade among each other is much less likely to start
stabbing each other deliberatedly, because they make more profits from trading.
On the other hand, despite all the cool advertisements on the contrary, it is
quite clear that NATO is mostly the US sending soldiers to fight and die while
the population of the other NATO members scream bloody murder because America
is an imperialist power that must be destroyed, and their respective
governments hold Uncle Sam's coat in the process. I dare say the push to stop
contributing to the NATO in Spain is stronger than any Far-Right imaginary
threat.

I don't think this is the foundation of a strong alliance. It is an alliance
that may hold together but it is feebler than it seems. One of the reasons why
Trump gathered support was that he dennounced (and rightly so) that American
soldiers were coming back in plastic bags while everybody else sat on their fatasses criticising. I have family in the Spanish army, and I have been told that, when they were deployed in the MIddle East, one of the directives they got
was to call for the Americans if anything happened.

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