I think the Ukraine war is going to be the thing that tips the scale unless peace and return of land is negotiated as part of EU aligning itself with BRICS. Makes me think that the US could purposefully delay peace talks to win over EU?
The future will be really interesting. With the AWS outage yesterday the reliance on US for infrastructure is once again called into question. Could a new subspace within the internet be formed as the EU tries to break away?
Never gonna happen. Eastern Europeans have massive hate boner for Russia, because they were effectively colonized for 40 years as "Eastern Block" and Putin is trying to repeat that.
> Russia (supposedly) wants Ukraine because of the ever growing presence of NATO at its doorstep.
Main point of division between Ukraine and Russia is the fact, that Ukrainians consider themselves as standalone nation, why Russians consider Ukrainians as part of Russia. As long as Ukraine or Ukrainians exists, (or as long as Russia is jingoistic state) there will be war between Russia and Ukraine. It is a repeated narrative for last 300 years.
I would normally qualify this type of statement as "just my take," but not in this case, as it is plain as day. They state it openly, and proudly.
Meanwhile, many in the USA and Europe still twist themselves into knots trying to come up with a more rational explanation.
Brics has no beef in this fight, especially if the US is no longer involved (US involvement could make Ukraine a proxy-terrain between China/US)
JoeDohn•3mo ago
The question now what the Netherlands gonna do about and it, and in a bigger picture the EU.
I suspect the US when they pushed the Netherlands to do this, the knew it would end up like in this situation, and defacto would make the EU "choose" a side.
____mr____•3mo ago
A singular CEO refusing to be ousted is not the same as workers rebelling against foreign nation nationalizing your company for geopolitical reasons.
nonethewiser•3mo ago