• zephyreks
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    1 year ago

    The US is the center of the West’s response to Russia’s invasion. That’s indisputable.

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      1 year ago

      Which doesn’t make make them the center of latin American reasoning. Geopolitics is more complicated than that. NOr is their anything in the article to imply anything of the sort.

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        1 year ago

        Geopolitics is centered around the big superpowers (the US, the ex-USSR, and China). Claiming otherwise is silly.

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            1 year ago

            The EU has never been considered a power of the same scale as the US or the ex-USSR.

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              And yet is much more directly impacted by, and involved in, the situation in Ukraine and you know, it was a direct exchange between those two parties and referencing those two parties and not the US.

              You’ve got a bad case of American on the brain. You hate the topic but can’t change the subject.

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                1 year ago

                I must be forgetting how NATO gets funded…

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                  You definitely are since the US only pays about 16% of NATOS budget. Which is a smaller percentage than what the US pays to the UN peace keeping forces.

                  You……do know that NATOs budget is not the same things as NATO combined military spending right?

                  And also irrelevant since the EU is not NATO. They share members they do not have identical membership.

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                    Take a look at a map of NATO. Now take a look at a map of EU aid to Ukraine. The only real non-NATO members of the EU are, what? Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, and Serbia (and a few microstates)?

                    Oh, would you look at that! Guess who hasn’t been providing significant military aid to Ukraine. No guns and no ammunition. (In other news, even China has provided Ukraine with humanitarian aid…)

                    This is a proxy war between the US and Russia. The only significant aid from non-NATO states has been from, what, Pakistan (who oppose anything India supports lol), Australia (who are otherwise aligned with the US through ANZUS/AUKUS), Israel (do I even need to say anything?), and Japan (who are obviously aligned with the US)?