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by bryanlarsen
874 days ago
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Finland purchased lots of military hardware from the Soviet Union. I'm sure Ukraine would have been willing to sign a deal that enabled/required them to buy lots of military hardware from Russia. That wasn't the deal on the table. Austria, unlike Finland or Ukraine, has and had a much lower fear of a Russian invasion. |
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Not in 1945, that is for sure. As an ally of the Nazis, Austria was probably shocked and delighted that they weren't invaded in 1945. So, I'm going to assume your reply pertains to the later decades of the Cold War.
But let's recap your argument. You're saying that even though appeasing Russia (by not joining NATO) might have been the right move for Austria during the later decades of the Cold War, Austria's experience is not relevant to Ukraine's situation because Ukraine has a higher fear of a Russian invasion.
It seems to me that is backwards. It seems to me that it is states like for example Mexico or India that Russia has little strategic interest in and that are too far away for Russia to be able to attack that can ignore Russian demands, and that the closer a country is to Russia, and the more Russia perceives that country to be a threat to Russia if the country were to choose to enter into a military alliance with one of Russia's enemies, the more seriously the country should consider acceding to Russian demands not to enter into such alliances.