Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes that she is being made a “scapegoat” for the war in Ukraine due to her position at the NATO summit in 2008, when she blocked Kyiv’s path to a Membership Action Plan.
To me it’s lunacy to think Russia will be defeated and split up. Who’s going to defeat them? With which soldiers? Europe is an old continent, there are so few young people… It would be the final demise of the European economy having to fight a war with Russia. And do you consider the risks? Russia has nukes. Before anything even remotely to the scenario of being split up happens, it will have used them. No sane person can ignore this threat.
You do realize that in last ~100 years, 16 countries liberated themselves from russian occupation? Two other countries tried, but failed.
This is not a matter of directly fighting russia. There is also matter of not providing moral support for their genocidal imperialism, not providing financial support for their genocidal imperialism and targeting corruption (Schroder).
Peace through trade is not some sort of magical deus ex machina and it clearly did not work and will not work until russians start caring about the rights and the future of their children.
You do realize that in last ~100 years, 16 countries liberated themselves from russian occupation? Two other countries tried, but failed.
This is not a matter of directly fighting russia. There is also matter of not providing moral support for their genocidal imperialism, not providing financial support for their genocidal imperialism and targeting corruption (Schroder).
Peace through trade is not some sort of magical deus ex machina and it clearly did not work and will not work until russians start caring about the rights and the future of their children.