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The corporate media says Putin wants to take over the world, and Trump says Zelenskyy somehow managed to trick the US into supporting him — but the reality is that NATO’s long-term strategy of expansion towards Russia’s borders made war inevitable.
The only REAL path towards peace is the abolition of NATO!
The Soviet Union was dissolved, countries normally don’t react on emotions, but material conditions. Countries either join NATO, or are under constant threat from NATO, in which instance it makes far more sense to join it as a poor country devastated by the reintroduction of Capitalism.
I used your argument in a convo with a Redditor. Maybe you can help me with the rebuttal.
As they stated, Finland and Switzerland are Imperialist countries that have very different conditions from the devastated post-Soviet countries, who were treated with a carrot and stick approach. The Nordics have had a strategy of riding the wave, so to speak, investing very little and reaping the benefits from countries actually propping up Imperialism.
Essentially, they are landlords, and the US and other heavy NATO investors are the police state. The Russo-Ukrainian war spooked some of the Nordics into joining because they can no longer trust a “free ride” after Russia invaded Ukraine to avoid triggering Article 5, that doesn’t mean NATO isn’t coercive or Imperialist.
So You say, that Finland and Sweden was under constant threat from NATO before 2022, and decided to join it?
Finland and Sweden are Imperialist countries themselves, they just kinda coasted by without needing to commit to being in NATO because they thought they could get all of the benefits without committing.