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And he is not wrong. European support can be adequately described as Too little too late
US support was too little too late. Biden was a failure across the board.
You're not wrong, but it wasn't just him. It was a group effort.
That is true. Everyone was letting Biden take the lead, somehow thinking he knew what he was doing though.
Europe has a lot of talk.
Without Europe Ukraine would have already fallen.
Europe is playing the role the US did for a long time in WW2 with the Transatlantic convoys. Supplies.
What Ukraine is asking for is a full blown conflict between Europe and Russia. I think it's right to try to avoid that.
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It's infuriating that in any way the West stumbles is always a win in Putin's eyes.
Congrats Bill Murray, your comedy movie has transcended pop culture.
I wish the EU would get off the pot and destroy Russia already. It is a dagger pointed at their backside, just waiting for an open conflict to erupt between the US and the EU. Getting rid of Russia would go a long way towards safeguarding democracy and human decency.
Plus, the EU can invest into Ukraine. They have excellent resources, and truly blooded soldiers with expertise in modern warfare. Having them teach the EU how to fight sooner than later would be invaluable if the US attacks the EU.
Be it humanitarian or pragmatic, there is no downside in the EU doing the right thing.
Europe could definitely do more, but I don't think a brute force removal of the current russian elite is feasible without huge loss of life.
Since apparently these days you could just fly into a capital and kidnap a president after a few months of training, simulation and bribery maybe they could do something like that for Putin and the main Russian oligarchs. Clear out the trash in one go and avoid war. But I think this is also too optimistic.
Timidity is a good way to lose control over a situation - be it at a personal or national level. The longer that the EU drags their feet, the harder things will become when the choice to take action is no longer possible.
One way or another, the EU should do more. Support Ukraine directly, declare war on Putin, call in Agent 47. The important thing, is that inaction inherently lends itself to allowing someone more assertive to take control. That someone shouldn't be Putin nor Trump.
I wish the EU would get off the pot and destroy Russia already.
You mean the regime and the mobsters aiming to abolish all restrictions on their wealth.
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"A year has passed. And nothing has changed. We are still in a situation where I must say the same words again,” Zelenskyy said.
True and false at the same time. Taken separately, a lot of things have changed. Dozens of prototypes have become experimental products and are being used. E.g. factory A opened, factory B got furnished and is doing test production, factory C is being built, with the understanding that it will give production in 2027. That helps, if you know "I will get a shiny new thingy in 2027", you can donate your old thingy in 2026 (but the old thingy could be obsolete already).
But he's right about attitudes. Attitudes in many offices are complacent. Things are not taken seriously, people are stuck in their routine and helpless.
I would like to deny, but I've had a chance to observe first hand. An office which you'd expect to respond to queries fast, responded slower than moss grows. An office which you'd expect to be constructive and help find a way to legally reserve airspace kept playing table tennis with applications until threatened with civil disobedience. Conditions for a project competition which you'd hope to accommodate agile development turned out to be a bureaucratic jumble in which you can't even sign an application due to severe limitations. I've heard credible stories of drone developers in Eastern Europe driving hundreds of kilometers to Ukraine to test (or testing illegally) because at home, things are overregulated. It's a recipe for falling behind.
On the grand scale, politicians are also relatively passive and not very resourceful. It was sad to watch the situation involving frozen Russian funds. There was a way to help and intervene effectively, but politicians were too risk-averse to use it.
Watch out for that first step. It's a doozy!
Ned Ryerson!
Zelensky isn't wrong, but even peacekeeping missions are extremely politically unpopular in Western Europe right now.
The French left is basically saying "it's not our issue, we shouldn't get involved". The far right say the same. The incumbents are barely hanging on to their remaining political capital
For a peacekeeping mission, there has to be a peace to keep.
He's asking for combat troops.
Far rights became Putin's mouthpiece in most countries.
Helping Ukraine is a duty of the free world, because we can't afford losing more allies after we lost US.
Most people don't care about duties and honor and values like freedom (even though they say they do).
Western Europe has frequently "sacrificed" Eastern Europe in hopes of being able to maintain their bourgeois lifestyle a bit longer
Unless Mélenchon changed his tuned again, last I heard, he was only against loans. Helping, yes, but no strings attached.
I don't know about Mélenchon but years after the fact I still read a lot of similar slander on the Swedish left. They literally were just in disagreement about how weapons exports should be made possible without breaking existing Swedish legislation, and the issue was addressed in 24 hours, but people still bring up that incident as "the Swedish far left blocked help for Ukraine".
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Zelensky isn’t wrong, but even peacekeeping missions are extremely politically unpopular in Western Europe right now.
This is why I'm not bullish on the notion of a collective European defense. I'm sure it will happen, but how hamstrung will it be with politics?
I'm not bullish on a collective European defence because Europe thinks it's a spending and rearmament problem, when in fact it's a logistics and coordination one.
You have a battalion in Spain that you'd need to deploy to Latvia. How do you airlift? Which country has airlifting capabilities, etc.
Very true. People think American military hegemony is about fancy tech and nukes. Really it's about being able to firehose materiel at an enemy until our populace feels bad about it.
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