Originally Posted by
dukkha
being into peace is good, but you have to promote actions that lead to peace as well, or you
(not you personally) are just a hypocrite,
Russiaphobia is treating Russia solely as an existential threat -say like terrorism- without trying to improve relations. in practice it's viewing Russia solely as a zero sum game.
Anything we do has to punish Russia,and anything Russia does has to be seen as a threat to the west.
Obviously international relations are much more complex - but dumbing it down always to a zero sum
hurts our own security ( or causes a bloated DoD budget at minimum).
It's also blaming Russia for anything ( scapegoating) - like the "Russian collusion" hoax.
It would be much better for Europe to have good relations with Russia.
Less defense spending ( which is pure waste) and less tensions would also bring Russia back
from it's way too cozy ties with China.
I mentioned the "China card" -that was the policy of trying to keep Russia and China from a military alliance
to threaten the west.
We did that for 40 years, and it all fell apart under Obama. The reason was U.S.meddling in Ukraine's Euromaidan.
That destroyed the "Russian reset" and started the whole Crimea annexation and the current war in Donbass
Obama had no easy challenge. A civilian airliner was shot down over Ukraine. Russia had their hand in that. I'm all for good relations but that doesn't mean just looking the other way when provocations occur. I don't think it is being fair to blame a deterioration of Russia relations solely on Obama.
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