Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9202260
Vladimir Putin will spark a third world war if the Russian president is allowed to declare victory in Ukraine, according to the boss of the country’s biggest private employer.
Yuriy Ryzhenkov, chief executive of Metinvest, which ran the sprawling Azovstal steelworks that became the site of a relentless Russian assault at the start of the 2022 invasion, warned of the consequences of a Kremlin victory.
“I don’t believe that if Ukraine fails, Putin will stop,” he said in an interview ahead of the two year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. “The Baltic states, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia are the next targets.”
Now they no longer provide any support… how will that strong arming work? Give them less? (This is the thing that the isolationists overlook in the US, the US buys their influence).
Sure Ukraine has it difficult, but it has not even conscripted their youngest fittest men. It is silly to think either side currently has the power to beat the other. In the current stance this can last another decade.
Oh, is America no longer supporting Ukraine? News to me. If that were true, that’d be great. If Ukraine can win their war without us, more power to them, seriously. I hope they win. As long as America is uninvolved, I’m happy. The east is more than welcome to settle border disputes on their own.
LOL, isolationism and no understanding of geopolitics.
The US is as rich and powerful because one of their key exports is safety for their allies.
Once that goes out the window many other things might change or fade away.
Trying to be top dog of a global trade empire and being an isolationist don’t go well together.
And if the US where to abandon Europe/Ukraine, why would anyone care to stop trade with China, once the inevitable clash between the US and China occurs.
The US needs their allies just as much as they need the US.
Agreed, we need to stop being the top dog, and start coexisting with Russia and China as equals. There is zero reason we need anyone to not trade with China, or why we need to be the “world police”. It’s gotten us nothing but inequality and terrible life outcomes, we NEED to stop trying to make it happen.
Fine, but do you understand that in this case everyone need to follow the same rules, right ? And I think that the ones we have in EU/US, for all their problems, are far better than the ones in Russia and China.
It depends on what you think it is important.
The other side seems a lot worse.
It does not work this way. You cannot stop (if you want to survive), you need to become better. If we stop, we will be gone because the other side will not stop and “invade” us.
How is the other side worse? How many foreign leaders have they assassinated? How many elections have they rigged? How many authoritarian warlords have they armed in order to destabilize governments? All of those things have historically (back to 1950) been done by USA. I agree that everyone should follow the same rules, whenever America decides to start following them, they should let us know.
World politics is not Us or Them. Claiming that we have to do the bad things or else they’ll be done to us is literally the logic of abusers.
Still not the topic we are discussing here.
If we go arbitrarily back into the past, Italy has only to teach about all these things. And Europe as well in relatively recent times. What US are doing, to a European who know history, is just child play.
Maybe, but I prefer to live in Europe with US than in Russia and or China. Feel free to go to these countries, it is not my problem.