Quote (ofthevoid @ Feb 27 2024 02:40pm)
Strange that nations that have all been targeted by our geopolitical arrows would band together.
There is no rule for thee in this case. These alliances are reactionary in nature, responding to our initial actions. Iran doesn't hate us for no reason, they hate us because we tried to install a puppet to rule over them and have been actively opposing them for decades.
We could have had Russia in our geopolitical camp when the USSR fell apart, instead we told them to take a walk and continued to expand NATO and got to the point where we wanted nations like Ukraine & Georgia in there.
crocodile tears from Russia. and illogical to the point it's silly anyone buys it.
Why would a country that wants to be our ally militarily see a military alliance spreading towards them as a red line? if they truly wanted to be our ally that wouldn't pose a threat at all. the truth is they wanted free reign at influencing the former USSR satellite states so they and only they could pilfer them. they could have fully joined the fold of the west and been a true ally, and all it would have cost them is the free rein over their closest geological neighbors, many of which are backwater nations anyways.
they chose another path, rather than actual ally they put forward former KGB agents to keep up the cold war, keep influence over vodka soaked low GDP nations, and sell of weapons to terrorists and dictators. its what they want, and it's what the bourgeoisie of Russian oligarchs have always wanted. to truly join the west they'd have lost a large part of their fortunes to true democracy.
it's the same of all regime changes without violent revolution, they just change hats and keep doing the same business. the USSR collapse was just a corporate restructuring, russia hasn't changed, doesnt want to change, and never will change unless heads roll. which is very unlikely. the narrative that russia ever had a chance to become an ally is silly, the idea that Clinton's nato expansion was proactive exclusively, rather than partially a reaction to what the former-USSR was becoming, is silly. Clinton is a lackey warhack, but geopolitically he wasnt wrong about what russia was and what NATO was for.