On 1/24/24 06:39, Dean Markley wrote:

On Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 1:15:44 PM UTC-5, a425couple wrote:

Are people of EU not afraid ---

For years, decades even, the EU did everything humanly possible and then
some to make Russia feel at peace and secure. We made sure they could
sell their gas to EU, build pipelines and entangle their economy with
our own. We didn’t criticise Russia for their antics in Chechnya. We
turned a blind eye to Russian internal politics altogether. We allowed
Russian propaganda channels to run amok in the west and didn’t create
our own to compete for Russian audience. We rejected membership to NATO
for Ukraine and Georgia, even though both pleaded quite desperately to
get in.

As a nice thank you, Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, Ukraine in 2014 and
in 2022, they’re threatning us nuclear war and Russian television speaks
openly about expanding the war to NATO member states, taking the Baltics
and invading Poland.

It was a mistake to treat Russia as a partner. We screwed up in 1991 and
the years that followed. What we should have done is treat them like a
beaten dog and clamp down on them with an iron fist. No sales of
energents, without major concessions: no public television in Russia,

big snip

Another example of why Quora is a vast wasteland with an occasional

nugget of gold.

Your millage may vary,
But I thought it was worthwhile to consider the alternative time frame
policy path that was described in the sections above I did not snip.

But then, silly me, I will always wonder what the world might
of been like if more Americans had chosen to skip the 2 standard choices
in 2016 and voted for Gary Johnson for POTUS.

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