Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Metsola: We must continue sending ammunition to Ukraine until the Russian invasion ends | DW News" video.

Is it? There's been a queue at the EU's door practically from the start. The Copenhagen Criteria prescribe that only fully democratic countries get to join. Therefore, it would be a contradiction in terms that a democratic country were join the EU against the will of its people. Are you sure you're not confusing the EU with the Eurasian Economic Union? It tried to expand against the will of the people, but then Euromaidan happened. In a fit of blind jealousy, Putin started what will become known as the Russo-Ukrainian War. The aggression is all Russia's.
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No, by that logic Cuba should get a ballistic missile defence system akin to the Aegis. But I bet Cuba is loath to get embroiled in Russia's ill-advised military adventurism. Unlike the Soviet Union, Russia can't prop up Cuba's failing economy -- Russia can only make it worse. By the way, Russia has nuclear-capable Iskanders in Kaliningrad and it has now given some to Belarus, too. By that logic, NATO should station ballistic nuclear missiles in Poland and Lithuania.
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Problem. The world doesn't seem to agree with you and your Russia.
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I would advise against letting geography dictate who belongs in the EU and NATO and who doesn't. For better or for worse... who am I kidding... for worse, Russia covers a bigger part of the European continent than any other country in Europe. As it happens, Russia is also the most populous country in Europe. That's the way the cookie crumbles, I'm afraid.
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@operator9858 What are you on about? Practically the whole of Eastern Europe has joined the EU, and this already happened before Russia went over to the dark side. Eastern Europeans are hardly considered a burden on welfare -- on the contrary. When I lived in Belgium, a joke went around that the local ministry of labour organised Polish languages courses for cleaning ladies. That was because the Belgians only wanted Polish cleaning ladies on account of their strong work ethic. You should get out more. You'd learn something about this world.
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Not a problem. We'll forge weapons from green steel in no time.
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You don't speak on behalf of Africa. You don't even come close. African nations that support Russia number just two, while those that condemn Russia's war of aggression number 30.
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@duncansmith7562 You show how it's done. You know you want to.
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I can't think of a single instance where the LGBTQ community waged a war of aggression, committed numerous war crimes and illegally annexed foreign lands for the greater glory of a deranged dictator. Whatever did the LGBTQs do to you that makes you pooh-pooh a war of this magnitude? Such an extreme response raises the question if you're unsure about your own sexual orientation and in the midst of a violent denial phase.
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@user-g5xnx7gjqb Congrats, you've got quite an imagination on you. But history is not a children's story book that you can write in with your little crayon. The price of oil and gas is governed by supply and demand. You'd think Russian and oil and gas would've been cheapest to Russia, allowing it to develop into an industrial powerhouse like Germany, but no, Russia remained a commodity peddler -- a gas station masquerading as a country, as they say. Greece grossly mismanaged its public finances and ended up in a debt spiral. It dig a hole for itself, and lo and behold, it fell in. No one held a gun to Greece's head to make it stay in the EU. The EU is rooted in Franco-German economic co-operation, but a devastated post-war Germany was in no position to call the shots. Germany just quietly rolled up its sleeves and got to work. Sadly for France and Britain, economic and political clout go hand in hand in the EU. The EU's Cohesion Fund has lavished the Eastern European members with money, allowing them to recover from the economic mismanagement during Soviet subjugation. Poland, for instance, sailed unscathed through the recessions of the late noughties. If anything, that was a wise investment on the EU's part. Despite their even murkier Soviet past, the Baltic states are doing fine. I make regular business trips to Tallinn. Every time I visit, Estonia has made a stride forward. Visiting Russians are filled with envy. I hear separatists in Kaliningrad aspire to form a fourth Baltic state, apart from Mother Russia. No doubt, they'll apply for EU membership when they're good and ready. Probably NATO, too, to discourage unwelcome attentions from Muscovy, the State-Formerly-Known-as-Russia.
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That would spell the end of Putinist Russia. NATO. Article. 5.
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@generalstack6540 Don't be silly, General Armchair. Not a single European country wanted to stay in Afghanistan. It's just that Trump/Biden bollocksed up the withdrawal. Poor timing, poor execution. If you wanted to do an equally poor job at arguing your case about "American autocracy", you succeeded admirably.
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