Perhaps if the UK conservatives didn’t mess up their country so badly with Brexit and privatization, they wouldn’t be so concerned about paying for another country to stop Russia’s imperial expansion.
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I feel like people are starting to lose track of the big picture as the war becomes more and more normalized. I imagine the same goes for Ukraine seemingly taking the allies’ support more “for granted” than in the beginning of the war. Obviously, Ukrainians are fighting this war in the interest of the entire western community, so to ask them to be more grateful for western support just seems petty imo.
This is literally a NATO proxy-war with Russia. If we don’t want to send actual troops, we better be giving them all the equipment they ask for. Blank check.
Is it really a proxy war if NATO is reacting to Russian agression, though? Maybe I misunderstand the meaning of the term, but I don’t see much evidence that NATO was rooting for this conflict to escalate the way it did.
Trying to make sure I understood the root of your question here.
Is it that the war in Ukraine can’t be a proxy war because NATO isn’t rooting for it?
In my understanding, calling the Ukraine war a NATO proxy war suggests that NATO is seen as an agressor/enabler in this conflict, effectively exploiting Ukraine to further NATO’s agenda. I’m not sure if that’s what the other commenter was implying (cause if so I would disagree with them), but that’s why I’m asking :)
I just looked up the definition and you’re absolutely right. I’m not the OP but I would have used it the same way. I always thought a proxy war was any war between two great powers where at least one didn’t get involved, I never realized it required an absent power to be the aggressor.
They (UK) are also not meeting their obligations under the Budapest 1994 agreement. In that US and UK (and ironically Ruzzia) agreed to have “boots on the ground” to defend Ukraine!
Well sure, if Ukraine and those countries care to start WW3 by acting upon it.
“We’re not Amazon”, said the country that during the Second World War was begging for help to United States so they could stop Hitler.
Stop acting like the spoiled child of Europe and start helping a country that is fighting for its existence.
Start helping? I dunno what to tell you if you think the UK hasn’t done anything to help Ukraine.
Yes, I noticed that my wording was not entirely correct.
Read the article, he was not referencing the UK, he was advising them how to get more backing from western countries.
Ben Wallace is a piece of SHIT.
