At no point was the genocide in Gaza fine. People have a tendency to just arbitrarily pick a point in history, such as the October 7 attack, and ignore everything that led up to it. The crimes against humanity have been going on for decades, and the west chose to look the other way.
And once you lot run out of Ukrainians you'll support war elsewhere and find new justifications for it because that's what you do.
In the grand scheme of things I agree, the US wouldn't have respected European sovereignty either way.
European leaders, if they can even be called that, abandoned even the pretense of a rules based world in their eagerness to serve as obedient vassals. By supporting the blatant violation of international law in Gaza, they shattered the very principles that could have shielded them from the same fate.
Europe has actively dismantled the very institutions that could protected it from the predatory ambitions of stronger powers. By embracing "might makes right," Europe has forfeited its moral authority when the same logic is turned against it. The US will exploit the current state of European weakness mercilessly, reducing it to a dependent appendage, stripped of autonomy and dignity.
Europe stands on the precipice of its own century of humiliation that it's marching into with eyes wide open. It's is no longer a player at the table of global power, and now finds itself on the menu.
Gonna be interesting to see how the EU plans to reindustrialize given that the energy prices in Europe are far higher than in US or China. There is very little incentive for the capitalists to invest in EU industry since their rate of profit would be lower. Will EU start building out public industry, or will they provide massive subsidies to entice business?
All article 5 says is that members have to consider what level of support they're going to provide. It does not stipulate that member countries have to be involved militarily.
That's absolutely not the case. Here’s an article explaining that Chinese system actually encourages decentralized governance and grassroots organization from bottom up. https://www.noemamag.com/what-the-west-misunderstands-about-power-in-china/
Similarly, the government is also organized based on using grassroots structures as its foundation https://news.cgtn.com/event/2021/who-runs-the-cpc/index.html
You're making claims out of ignorance here.
The funny part here is that 90k is far below 500k+ they were claiming this whole time.
I love how the source for the claim is reuters trying to psychoanalyze Putin. Also, hilarious that you think Putin is a dictator, really highlights your infantile understanding of Russian political system. You keep on waiting for Russian economic collapse there kiddo, I'm sure it's coming any day now.