I do agree Europe is on a decline and in my opinion it is irreversible. It’s one of the reasons why I am happy to have been migrated to South-East Asia from The Netherlands.
The reason why I believe it’s irreversible is because of the power of the media. Too many people still believe the global warming narrative and are open to mass immigration. Not to mention the fact that the USA has succeeded in convincing many Europeans that Russia is to be an enemy instead of an ally.
All of this will greatly increase the cost of living for the common man while at the same time the welfare state is being destroyed. Europeans will face much hardship the next decennia and I don’t think they’ll be able to recover.
I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but I’ll voice it here anyways :)
Ooo, a pro Russia climate change denier. Don't see those in polite society often.
Believe me, there are many in the liberal sphere who do not support unlimited mass migration. Open borders are not compatible with a welfare state.
As for denying the changing climate and supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I don't feel anything I can type in short order would enlighten the reader if they don't already see the injustice after a few hundred thousand dead.
>Open borders are not compatible with a welfare state
Maybe you liberals shouldn't support neoconservative conflicts that drive the migration in the first place. Hillary's State Department did such a great job in Honduras, Libya, Syria. The same is happening now in Ukraine. These conflicts are all about preserving American hegemony, nothing more.
This is so delusional. The Eastern oblasts were prevented from declaring independence for years based on Russian pressure. Russia doesn't want Ukraine, they just don't want NATO setting up shop on their borders. The same way the US would never tolerate China setting up shop in Northern Mexico or Southern Canada. NATO has spent the years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union breaking all of their assurances to Russia that it would not expand, literally encircling them.
>> Russia is restoring its unity - the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe of our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome
I suggest you read the article i think you’ll find the word NATO doesn’t even appear in it.
> they just don't want NATO setting up shop on their borders
Then they have already failed as the Russian border with NATO is now longer then it would be if you included Ukraine and Ukraine isn’t even in NATO.
I don’t think it was this though as Germany gave Russia assurances before the war that they would veto Ukraines NATO application.
> NATO has spent the years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union breaking all of their assurances to Russia that it would not expand, literally encircling them.
There was never any formalised agreement to not expand NATO, so no promise was ever made.
Regardless of that Russia has multiple international agreements with Ukraine (that are formalised) that say they will never threaten their sovereignty.
Why doesn’t Russia have to follow those?.
Another question one might ask is why Russias neighbours want to join NATO it’s probably because Russia has invaded nearly all of them at some point in time.
Seems pretty reasonable to me to want to defend yourself from what at this point seems like a likely future invasion,
The word NATO appeared in every diplomatic negotiation about the Donbas preceding and subsequent to the war. Don't waste people's time with nonsense-- I can find an article in US media that also puts forward every conceivable position if I try hard enough.
>Regardless of that Russia has multiple international agreements with Ukraine (that are formalised) that say they will never threaten their sovereignty.
Why doesn’t Russia have to follow those?.
You mean like the Minsk accords that Zelensky failed to implement? The Ukrainian people put their faith in him to end the war, but he caved to the Right. Turns out actors don't make good presidents, as we know in the US as well.
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/10/the-tragedy-of-volodymyr...
Well I'll agree to disagree on a number of points here, but I respect your sentiment. I don't believe that the media is powerful. On the contrary, I feel that the media being weakened and focused on sensational content is the reason we're in this mess. While the European media was supposed to be one of the entities keeping government officials and Eurocrats in check, their systematic weakening has led to those failing governments to implement widely unpopular policies that only harmed the social fabric of the continent.
I also can't believe the big bad USA has turned the Baltic states, Poland, Ukraine, etc on Russia. It's because the media is just too weak in Russia, China, Iran, North Korea so they haven't been able to communicate their upstanding values clearly enough.
Do you think it's a wonder that supporting an invasion that has killed hundreds of thousands of innocents, with truckloads of photographically documented war crimes, is an "unpopular opinion"?
Putin is a monster on the same scale as Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot. Your support for him is disgusting.
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned here, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. We've had to warn you about this more than once before.
You may not owe monsters better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
The reason why I believe it’s irreversible is because of the power of the media. Too many people still believe the global warming narrative and are open to mass immigration. Not to mention the fact that the USA has succeeded in convincing many Europeans that Russia is to be an enemy instead of an ally.
All of this will greatly increase the cost of living for the common man while at the same time the welfare state is being destroyed. Europeans will face much hardship the next decennia and I don’t think they’ll be able to recover.
I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but I’ll voice it here anyways :)