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by Argonaut998 57 days ago
Doing this ensures:

- No more soft power

- Massively reduced capability to strike the Middle East

- Europe dumping US bonds

- Europe reducing dependence on the USD

- No ability to restrain Europe from arming

- No one would trust the US again - remember, the USA has had security guarantees with Ukraine long before this mess.

There is a lot to be said about this attitude of "we are doing Europe a favour" idiocy, it's reminiscent of the Bush era jingoism that I have noticed a resurgence of since Trump's second term, especially since the war with Iran.

The USA would be doing the USA a favour if they keep doing what they have been doing in Europe since the end of WWII. It's NOT bad for the USA. Europe is under the USA's thumb as a result of NATO.

Europe is in for a lot of short term pain as a result of the Ukraine and blockade of the Strait.

I also firmly believe (controversial I am aware) a desperate Europe will 100% throw Ukraine to the wolves and make peace with Russia for their energy, and what then?

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Yeah I'm not convinced that Ukraine is a real concern for the EU. The US has been trying to pull Ukraine into NATO for decades, which pissed off Russia because it's right next to them, and we thought they weren't going to do anything about it. Would the EU alone have followed such a strategy? Probably not, seeing how Germany blocked Ukraine from NATO in 2008 specifically to avoid angering Russia.