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Putin tells BBC the West is 'making Russia the enemy'
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1990-2013 I saw Russia as friendly'ish even when they fought in Chechnya etc.
2014-2021 wtf. maybe they are not so good? what's next?
2022- Russia is definitely the enemy
Yeah, I remember working in the early 2000s with Russian institutes and things were really good.
2008 was when I recall the first "wtf", in the war with Georgia.
Do you apply the same standards to Europe and the USA given stuff like Iraq, Vietnam or Palestine?
Yes, what you got next?
US is very much in the friends, wtf, enemy pipeline. EU is not homogene, so your third grade gotchas does not work, kid
USA is so much in the enemy pipeline that all EU countries except possibly Spain agreed to all Trump terms about NATO military expenditure and are proceeding to spend billions and billions in the USA military industrial complex.
EU is not homogeneous, thats why literally all countries except possibly Spain agreed to the military expenditure regardless of whether it's socdems, conservative Christians or far right in the government.
Most EU nations had militaries that were shrinking and on the verge of atrophy. They grow now only because Putin ordered the Invasion of Ukraine.
No, they grow because NATO imposed a 5% of GDP expenditure directed by Trump. This is literally coming from the USA.
It's untenable to say that Portugal and Poland coincidentally agreed to spend the same percentage of GDP on military because their governments independently made the decision based on fear of invasion by Russia.
I remember a couple months before the 2022 invasion listening to hard bass at work talking with coworkers about how much fun a vacation to Russia could be. Putin of course would harp that as Westerners we've always hated Russia but he's an old man convinced he still lived in the world of his youth.