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Did you hear John McCain died, and Lindsay Graham did not get the nomination for President?
"We" are not fighting in Ukraine. We sent 1/3000 of our yearly budget, though. Probably will next year, too.
Do you think it is good diplomacy though? Who is the more reliable partner? America or Russia?
Reminds me of what Kissinger said... "To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal."
Here is the whole quote.
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Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.
It was a warning from Kissinger about a diplomatic situation and how IF it went a certain way how it would look to other countries.
Just look at your statement from above, "Who is a more reliable partner? America"
"We" are not fighting in Ukraine. We sent 1/3000 of our yearly budget, though. Probably will next year, too.
Ukraine wouldn't last five minutes without American support. We're not even selling them weapons, we're giving them weapons, and money. Why do you think we're doing that?
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Just look at your statement from above, "Who is a more reliable partner? America"
Didn't Thieu meet the same fate as Diem? Is that the purpose of the wink?
I really think that we should have dismantled NATO after the fall of the USSR and dissolution of the Warsaw Pact.
In the end of the day, NATO is just a bureaucratic organization where countries profess they would come to each other's aid if attacked.
We never needed NATO to defend Ukraine. I mean, if we could have started lobbing nukes in February if we wanted.
And Ukraine being in NATO is no guarantee we will defend it if Russia attacks it. Of course we will say that we will, but as the saying goes: "where the rubber meets the road."
But you cannot ignore that NATO is a military alliance intended to check Russia and only Russia. It exists for that reason, and that reason alone. For us to push countries like Ukraine to join NATO, even organize a coup to get rid of a pro-Moscow statesmen, is highly aggressive and provocative response.
Russia cannot sit by and just let that happen. It has a duty to its citizens to make sure when Putin dies, they don't have any good options. Life is like chess, don't wait for your king to be trapped and within 1-2 moves of a checkmate.
I hate to break it to you but Russia is not the Soviet Union. Stalin wasn't Russian. I wouldn't really consider Lenin Russian. The Bolsheviks in general weren't exactly Russian. Modern Russia is controlled by a bunch of oligarchs that came after Russian state assets were privatized.
As for Germany and Japan. We occupied both countries, completely disarmed them, and effectively prevented them from rearming themselves. We also wrote their Constitutions, and in the case of Germany, controlled their media and education system to "denazify" them. Both countries are more-or-less occupied to this day.
Germany hates us. It's why we've been spying on the Germans for decades, even hacking into Angela Merkels phone. Then Joe Biden said he would blow up Nord Stream. Germany is basically a slave to America, and America is killing it. I don't think Japan likes us much either. They keep threatening to kick us out because American servicemen can't stop raping Japanese women. I'm sure we're twisting their arms in some way.
No they don't, this is made up.
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More than 70% of Germans view their country's relationship with the United States as positive, a marked increase compared with a year ago, according to a new survey carried out by the Kantar research institute on behalf of the Körber Foundation.
With Joe Biden in the White House, 71% of Germans see relations between the countries as "good" or "very good,"
If you were to go around Moscow and ask the average Russian if they like America, you'd get overwhelmingly positive responses until recently, and maybe even recently.
People =/= government, though I'm not sure I actually agree with Redshadow on Germany 'hating' America, more like cautious and pragmatic alliance. That's a story for another day.
Bottom line: average person on the street [and judging by the posts in this thread] don't have very political nuanced viewpoints. And tend to see the world with childlike naivety.
If you were to go around Moscow and ask the average Russian if they like America, you'd get overwhelmingly positive responses until recently, and maybe even recently.
People =/= government, though I'm not sure I actually agree with Redshadow on Germany 'hating' America, more like cautious and pragmatic alliance. That's a story for another day.
Bottom line: average person on the street [and judging by the posts in this thread] don't have very political nuanced viewpoints. And tend to see the world with childlike naivety.
Your version of "political nuanced viewpoints" is Russian propaganda and has no basis in reality.
For example, continuing to claim an agreement on German unification included an agreement on not expanding NATO long after the actual signed and ratified treaty has posted, and that agreement doesn't even mention NATO.
I'm not exactly sure what the poll is supposed to measure. It says it was 18% the previous year. Does that mean they hated us the previous year?
The question was just asking whether the relationship is strained in any way. It would be interesting to see a poll after we blew up Nord Stream and they're about to freeze and lose their jobs.
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Did you hear John McCain died, and Lindsay Graham did not get the nomination for President?
