Quote (Hamsterbaby @ Aug 21 2023 12:42pm)
Well, it is resolved now, they have no choice. Look , if given a Choice. Russia will rather lean West than East.
Russia was almost always a European nation. Everything from their culture, customs, cuisine it's more European than Asian. In 2000, Putin floated the idea of joining NATO which was shut down, which to me makes little sense from geopolitical perspective.
If you look around the world today, what we do is we go to power #3, power #4 in whatever region and basically say hey #2 is going to try to domineer your, align with us (power #1) and as a collective we will be much stronger. Look at who our biggest partners are in AIPAC are now. SK and Japan.
So with that in mind, with that type logic, by 2000 from a geopolitical perspective everyone is aware that China ascension is on the horizon, and it's only a matter a time that a country with huge industrial capability and 1+Bn will challenge for hegemony. So in a logical world, you pull Russia into the west military sphere. They are the #3 power in this discussion. Instead our policies pushed the number #3 and #2 closer than they have ever been. One has the industrial backbone, the other has the natural resource backbone. Not only did we push them closer but we've isolated number #3 so much that they will become long term intertwined and dependent on #2.
Wish the big brains at the state department or CIA would share their 'insight' on doing something like this, or how exactly this makes our true challenger weaker and us stronger. Maybe it's something we're all missing.
This post was edited by ofthevoid on Aug 21 2023 11:03am