• Comtief@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    Military expenditure is how you avoid war. You think Russia will only attack if Europe is strong? Bizarre… Also, I don’t think it’s the fascists who want expenditure, or at least not the far right parties, they are pro russia.

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      10 days ago

      Military expenditure is how you avoid war

      Surely giving more money to the lobbyists of Rheinmetall will make Europe much less likely to go to war!!

      You think Russia will only attack if Europe is strong?

      I think Russia wouldn’t attack the EU if we collectively agreed to maintain good relationships with Russia, as was the case for the past 30 years until EU+US pushed NATO boundaries to Russia and started executing Maidans in the former Russian sphere of influence. That’s not to absolve the Russian government, they’re fascist imperialist pieces of shit, but my point is that so is Europe (e.g. funding genocide in Gaza), and I don’t want another inter-imperialist war like WW1

      Also, I don’t think it’s the fascists who want expenditure

      But you’re willing to increase it even at risk of them getting to the government

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        10 days ago

        I think Russia wouldn’t attack the EU if we collectively agreed to maintain good relationships with Russia

        That’s pretty much France and especially Germany’s playbook for Russian relations for the past few decades though. It seemed to work well until it suddenly didn’t, so we’re gonna have to try the other way

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            10 days ago

            Sure, it only attacked its neighbor for committing the cardinal sin of trying to get into the EU and being afraid of Russia’s expansionism.

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              10 days ago

              The EU funded genocide in Palestine for committing the cardinal sin of existing though, what’s your point? Russia surely sucks, so does Europe, I don’t wanna fucking die in the front lines and neither do you, so stop warmongering