Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "DW News" channel.

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  30.  @ThePandafriend  You forgot that part of the deals after the implosion of the Soviet Union was not to push NATO eastwards all too far. The Ukraine, a very corrupt and politically instable post-Soviet country, could have well pursued modernization under military neutrality. Neutrality worked for Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and now works for India. But no, the Ukraine was foolishly promised NATO membership at some unspecified moment in the future and the Ukraine foolishly kept pressing for it. Putin has repeatedly warned the West since 15 years against that, but the West constantly ignored him. The West has actually denied Russia the right to have any interests at all. Is that diplomacy ? On a bigger scale: NATO having lost its original task of defense against an expansive Soviet Union has turned into a vehicle of "fostering democracy" (=pushing US interests) eastwards. That is not different from the British Empire officially carrying civilization to its colonies. Alas the Brits to some extent succeeded. But the US in the last decades manifestly does not - see the catastrophically failed nation building experiments in Libya or the Iraq. Which on top have cost the US the loss of its global standing as a reasonable and capable and benign superpower. On a symbolic level the scenes of loyal Afghans falling off US planes departing from Kabul will not be forgotten. Now if someone wants to weaken Russia hoping that it will break apart, then this amounts to a declaration of war. We have barely survived the Cold War. Do we really want to push the world to the brink of a nuclear war, just out of anti-Russia obsession ?
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