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Europe preps huge defense package in boost to Ukraine: "Never been seen" (www.newsweek.com)

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European officials are preparing a multibillion-dollar defense package to bolster regional security and support Ukraine, announced by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the Munich Security Conference.

The package, potentially valued up to 700 billion euros, will fund military training, arms deliveries, and security guarantees amid concerns over Russian aggression and diminishing U.S. contributions to NATO.

The move follows calls for Europe to boost its own defense spending while U.S.-Russian talks, which exclude Ukraine and Europe, on ending the Ukraine conflict continue.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

We either stop them and oppose their military spending

You notice that's a luxury exclusive to one side in that conflict? This freedom of speech, even forming a vocal political opposition. There have been people trying to do exactly that in Russia, but they all have died, vanished or gone silent.

If the dictatorship takes over (for example, due to a lack of resistance), you lose these privileges and are then sent to the grinder anyways.

[–] index -3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning got persecuted for exposing war crimes. The west is as much corrupted as russia, just take a look at the news reporting on the latest US oligarch

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The west is as much corrupted as russia

You did not check. Go and find some sources to confirm your claim.

I also suggest counting how many opposition leaders sit in prison or have been recently killed in the west, preferably per capita (for about a billion people). Then I suggest comparing that to Russian figures (for 140 million people).
After that, I suggest checking out how longer the ruling politicians have been ruling.

I claim that the west is considerably less corrupt than Russia. I offer a source too (below). I also claim that the west is an incredibly safe place to be in opposition, and that power changes hands frequently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

"Both sides bad" is running like a disease among some leftist circles. Mostly Western leftists who have never seen Russia up close. It's a nice false excuse to do nothing.

[–] index 1 points 3 days ago

You did not check. Go and find some sources to confirm your claim.

The orange man and his fellow oligarch

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