Expanding the alliance creates big problems for Russia.
  • RocksForBrains@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Russia is broke as fuck and its largest ship in the Baltic Sea is resting on the seabed.

    A Frenchman in a rowboat is enough to consider NATO the preeminent military in the waters.

    • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      Let’s not get too hyperbolic. The French surrender at the drop of a hat. If we were talking about a Romanian peddle boat, then you may have a point.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    NATO was becoming increasingly irrelevant until Putin’s “special military operation”. Talk about overplaying your hand.

    • Crow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      1 year ago

      This is the part that I can’t help but laugh at every time. Russia was slowly gaining a better global image, Russia already had crimea, all Russia had to do was NOTHING, but no. What a bunch of absolute idiots.

  • Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    Someone told me I wasn’t allowed to post an opinion piece on World News because it wasn’t news. They didn’t agree with the article I posted. It feels like a double standard that they’re not posting the same comment here. (I’m fine with opinion posts BTW)

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s not marked as an opinion piece by the publishing site. But if it’s against rules, feel free to report it.

      • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        If that title is not marked as opinion, the publisher lacks integrity.

    • Ghostc1212English
      171·
      1 year ago

      Most of Sweden and Finland’s working class supports joining NATO according to polls. Turns out living next to Russia does that to you.

        • Kept7963@lemmy.worldEnglish
          191·
          1 year ago

          Because of course people are always reasonable and back people and policies that are in their interest.

          It seems like by and large there’s support in Russia for the invasion in Ukraine. They might not be willing to go to full mobilisation, but if they don’t have to die themselves they’re fine with the invasion.

          Do you propose that the Ukrainians should stop fighting and plead with the Russian people to overthrow Putin?

            • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
              123·
              1 year ago

              Capital in Russia isn’t controlled by a bourgeoisie structurally aligned with liberal values as in classic Marxism; it’s controlled by an oligarchy descended partly from imperialist Soviet officials (e.g. Mr. Putin of the KGB) and partly from organized crime.

            • Ghostc1212English
              23·
              1 year ago

              Or perhaps people naturally feel an affinity for the place they grew up and the people they are most culturally and socially related to, and are thus liable to feel patriotic about their homelands without any input from, idk, the illuminati or whoever you think controls society

                • Ghostc1212English
                  11·
                  1 year ago

                  The national bourgeoisie use those patriotic feelings to manipulate the working class into slaughtering their actual brothers and sisters across borders.

                  Or perhaps different countries have different geopolitical interests which sometimes drive them to inflict violence upon eachother in pursuit of those interests

                  The people facing the exact same conditions, the exact same assault on their living conditions, the exact same war imposed on them.

                  Sweden and Finland have massively better living conditions than Russia and both have governments which were elected by the people. The illuminati you speak of are also either not very strong there or are incredibly benevolent considering how good the social programs are.

                  Ukraine and Russia were both victimized heavily by socialists, causing their shitty economic system today, but Ukraine is attempting to align itself with the west, geopolitically and economically, so that it can reap the same economic benefits that the rest of their brothers in Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Western Europe, North America, and Asia are all reaping from having free market economies and extensive international trade. The oligarchs in control of Russia don’t like this, because Ukraine has too many resources, is too close, and is too geographically valuable to lay outside of their empire, so they impose this war upon the Ukrainian and Russian people so that they can secure their interests. And of course, Ukrainians don’t like this, and neither does the West, so the Ukrainians fight back and we help them.

                  To be an internationalist isn’t to devalue a connection to the community of fellow workers in your country, it’s to extend it across borders.

                  To be an internationalist is to ignore all of human history and psychology in pursuit of a utopian pipe dream.

              • masquenox@lemmy.mlEnglish
                31·
                1 year ago

                it’s up to the people within Russia to inform themselves better

                People in the US certainly didn’t manage that in 2003.