The world goes crazy - and what is the West doing?

[KRonn]

Good article. It brings up some new ways of looking at things or at least some items and issues that seem to be overlooked in the rush of events and in the debates on how to respond.

[Ideologue]

Sooner or later, the dirty communist traitor will always come out of Ide.

I assume you refer to the special Esto-American Relationship that so defined transatlantic trade and culture during the 20th century and beyond?

[grumbler]

And?  I care why?  It's not my job or my country's job to fight Russia that far into its sphere of influence, courting Global Thermonuclear War over Talinn.

I don't think you quite get what this "NATO" thing is all about.  You talk about it as though it were some gang of superheros, with you one of them.

I think anyone with an ounce of understanding his history would know enough to reject your argument that there are "historically Russian territories," the restoration of whose boundaries is inevitable unless resisted by Thermonuclear War.  "Historically," there is no Russia.

[grumbler]

Actually isn't the whole problem is that Russia's sphere of influence ISN'T clearly defined, and that deciding what is and isn't in that sphere is the reason for the whole conflict in Ukraine. At least in the Cold War, there was an agreement before the end of World War 2 about whom the Soviets and Allies could influence in Europe (for good or ill), which meant that there was no conflict between the two sides, even to the point of ignoring rebellions within the Warsaw Pact.

No such deal was formally done after the Soviet collapse and it's the SOI of NATO/EU and Russia which is being decided now.

Not really, there was a deal, NATO though that meant no NATO bases in the east, Russia thought that meant no NATO membership for countries in the east.

In this deal (which you need to provides cites for, BTW), in whose SOI did Ukraine fall?  In other words, which side is violating the "deal" with the current interference and backing of sides in Ukraine?

[jimmy olsen]

I think anyone with an ounce of understanding his history would know enough to reject your argument that there are "historically Russian territories," the restoration of whose boundaries is inevitable unless resisted by Thermonuclear War.  "Historically," there is no Russia.

What exactly do you mean by that?

[alfred russel]

I think anyone with an ounce of understanding his history would know enough to reject your argument that there are "historically Russian territories," the restoration of whose boundaries is inevitable unless resisted by Thermonuclear War.  "Historically," there is no Russia.

What exactly do you mean by that?

Russia is a social construct.

[The Minsky Moment]

They are all just Scythians.

[Viking]

They are all just Scythians.

...or confused Vikings.

[Zoupa]

Every nation is a social construct. That's a bs argument.

[garbon]

I wish Zoupa was just a social construct.

[Razgovory]

I wish Zoupa was just a social construct.

Mental illness is a social construct used to divide the civilized world from the "other".  I tried to explain this to the guys at the asylum, but they wouldn't have it.  I still had to take my meds and go to bed at 10.

[Ideologue]

So this it: Languish finally just degenerated into JDU.  Sad day.

Mihali knows what I mean.  Actually, he probably doesn't.

[CountDeMoney]

Now, now people.  Let's put all this infighting aside, and agree that the original article is a Euroweenie piece of shit.

[garbon]

Now, now people.  Let's put all this infighting aside, and agree that the original article is a Euroweenie piece of shit.

I thought the original article was just saying that we actually need to figure out what we want to do in a coherent fashion.

[Grey Fox]

The West has no money to save people that hate it from themselves.