Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "The Spectator"
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The trouble with liberalism in international affairs is its not about societies overagainst one another and resorting to hard power; liberalism is about an individual's legally enforceable claims (rights) within a cooperating society. The US led because they paid the piper. American taxpayers were footing the bill for generations in Europe and it's now beyond what is feasible. Gangsters hide behind the presumption of innocence, operate against their fellow citizens abiding by the law, deny their acts, lead bullies out for themselves, and believe in nothing beyond themselves. Putin leads a powerful nation state with a monopoly of force in its territory that asserts itself openly and has men willing to die for it. Ditto Trump. In regards to his personal position, Putin was better off in ever way not invading Ukraine; he genuinely believes Ukraine getting closer to the West is a threat to Russia. For decades Britain has been taking from the defence budget to pay for social spending without raising taxes. Where does the money for endless support for Ukraine (have a long wait for Russia to collapse) come from? Europe is an economic dead zone. No country in the world is completely independent. West did our best for Ukraine but we have welfare state. Europe needs to start worrying worry about getting economic growth to match China and the US's. The US can't pay for the West's defence against an alliance of Russia and China. You add that billion people to Russia's resources and it's Goodnight Vienna. The US's alliance relationship turned into one of dependency. Trump was sent back to the White House, he is giving the Nato countries some realty therapy. As for Ukraine, it never received a guarantee of military aid, still less open ended military aid and imperceptible direct intel and targeting help that progressively pushed Russia closer to China. They are also ungrateful: Ukraine is hitting Russia's oil infrastructure and pushing up the global price of energy, which drives inflation. Russia and China may be each be weakening what taken in isolation but they are coalescing into an alliance, one in which they complement the others strengths. America has dependent 'allies' who place emphasis on their ethereal soft power contribution because they simply lack the economies to contribute anything else. Anything real.
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