Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "United Kingdom wants to create an alliance alternative to the EU." video.

  1. I think the way the war has so far played out was estimated by the russians to be so exceedingly unlikely that they didn't need to plan for or consider such details. they expected to win the war in a week or two. if they had, the sanctions would have been far weaker because there no longer would have been the purpose of supporting ukraine for the west to unite over. with the war won and the western will for sanctions smaller, russia also would have gotten more support from china to compensate for the lesser sanctions it would have experienced (and of course india would also have been even more eager). in fact this was almost explicitely publically promised at the olympics, and probably explicitely secretly promised by china with the announcement of the new "no limits partnership" between china and russia. russia based its decision to invade partially on a chinese promise that didn't get redeemed because the west brought too much pressure, which only happened because the war dragged on and russia mostly failed militarily. if russia had won within two weeks as intended, I believe that europe would ultimately have reduced russian energy imports by no more than 20% if at all, and nordstream 2 would probably enter service by the end of the year after everybody stopped giving a shit. I reckon what would still happen and what russia must have expected and accepted is the NATO membership of finland and sweden. so really, keeping NATO from expanding towards russia was always a ridiculous pretext for the invasion, since it was obvious that it would have the opposite effect. the benefit for china would have promarily been another humiliation for the west and likely weakening through disunity as a continuation of how the abandonment of afghanistan played out, which would have contributed a lot to setting the stage for a chinese invasion of taiwan.
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  2. good timing, very weak idea. what do they even propose to provide, other than new communication channels? perhaps britain is looking for new agreements with poorer countries to bring back foreign workers for low-paid british jobs, like what used to be done by poles or romanians when britain was still in the EU?
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  3. same. though personally I am still not as ashamed for how germany is representing me in the ukraine war as I was for how germany abandoned afghanistan. that's still easily the most despicable shit a german government has done in my lifetime. of course the rest of the involved NATO countries did just as badly, and the choice to leave was made unilaterally by the americans, but it's not like extreme selfishness and callous disregard for the lives of foreigners is surprising in US foreign politics, that's just to be expected. at least in ukraine, germany is helping A BIT, even though it's largely spoiled by the pathetic lies from the entire social democrat party. I never expected to hate them more than the christian democrats, but I think I'd take röttgen over scholz now. even though I last voted for the fucking clowns of the left party (never again ;)) because the greens are too centrist for my taste.
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  4. Raven Moon you can shut up until you've closed gitmo, buddy.
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