• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    NATO now openly admits that it’s running low on weapons and that it lacks industrial capacity to keep up with Russia. European economies are in a crisis, and pro western governments are starting to fall as we just saw in Slovakia. If you still don’t understand what a massive strategic defeat for NATO this proxy war was, then you’re going to see a lot of surprises in the near future. The BRICS is now a bigger economic bloc than the G7, and there’s a whole alternative economy now developing outside western control.

    Meanwhile, Russia is in a far stronger geopolitical position today and majority of the world supports Russia against the west:

    Russian economy is now projected to grow by 2.5% and industrial output in Russia is surging while it’s collapsing in the west and Europe is now in a recession.

    https://www.pmi.spglobal.com/Public/Home/PressRelease/b7141fc969fc4475bd6e1e2d4e16609e

    What would have happened was that NATO was going to absorb Ukraine and put nuclear weapons on Russian border. This was a red line that was very clearly communicated to NATO. It all comes down to the fact that NATO decided that it could act unilaterally and ignore concerns of all other countries. Now, Russia says that it is willing to challenge NATO militarily.

    Thinking that this has been anything other than an utter debacle for NATO illustrates profound lack of understanding of what’s actually happening.

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      The BRICS is now a bigger economic bloc than the G7

      Yeah that’s mostly China (and India) though.

      Russia says that it is willing to challenge NATO militarily.

      Russia also said the war would last 3 days. And that they were freeing the Ukrainians from nazi jews.

      OK so the reason is fear of nuclear weapons creeping closer? But NATO already has dozens of nuclear warheads in range of Russia, doesn’t it? Seems like bullshit to me, and seeing you gloating about the rise of BRICS vs the west makes me think I’m right.

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        Yeah that’s mostly China (and India) though.

        Both China and India are close allies of Russia and trade between Russia and China accounts for over 200 billion now.

        Russia also said the war would last 3 days.

        Russia never said the war would last 3 days.

        And that they were freeing the Ukrainians from nazi jews.

        No, what they said is that the Ukrainian regime that the west installed in a coup in 2014 has been doing this to the people in Donbas as reported by CNN, HRW, and NPR

        OK so the reason is fear of nuclear weapons creeping closer? But NATO already has dozens of nuclear warheads in range of Russia, doesn’t it?

        Nuclear missiles from Ukraine could reach Moscow in five minutes. If you don’t understand how that’s a major escalation, don’t know what else to tell you. The question is why you think that Russia should just sit back and let an aggressive military alliance with a history of invading countries continue expanding to its borders.

        Seems like bullshit to me, and seeing you gloating about the rise of BRICS vs the west makes me think I’m right.

        BRICS is expanding precisely because the west acts like it owns the world which is the same reason NATO is currently at war with Russia.