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    5 months ago

    Western rhetoric completely collapses when one simply observes their actions.

    If you have a really serious threat facing you, it goes a long way towards forcing people to work together, because they think their security is at risk. In other words, if you’re really dealing with the equivalent of Nazi Germany in Russia and they’ve got the equivalent of the Wehrmacht and Vladimir Putin is Adolf Hitler; that will go quite a long way towards dealing with the collective action problems. But as the three of us know, Russia is not Nazi Germany. It does not have the Wehrmacht at its disposal. It’s not a threat to overrun all of Ukraine, much less all of Europe, and a lot of people realize this.