This article looks at how Russian officials and commentators are reacting to renewed U.S. interest in acquiring Greenland and the resulting strain between the U.S., Europe, and the UK. It describes Moscow’s public mockery of European unity and NATO cohesion, including commentary about divisions over Greenland and support for Ukraine.
_Hello_Hi_Hey_ on
It’s equivalent of China invading Belarus. It’s really that ridiculous.
CyberFortuneTeller on
US: “This is about stopping Russia.”
Russia: “Amazing, keep going.”
burnt_umber_ciera on
All according to script.
Ethereal-Zenith on
Yet Russia also recently condemned the US’ attempt at taking over Greenland. Even they are not consistent with their messaging.
cambeiu on
At the end of WW2, in order to contain the existential threat represented by the USSR, the US put together a narrative of “an alliance of equals” amongst the liberal Western democracies. NATO, the IMF, World Bank, etc… were put in place and that alliance stood against Communist expansion coming from the East.
30 years after the collapse of the USSR, the current powers that be in the US decided that this narrative no longer had a purpose or served a function. Russia is an adversary, but it is definitely not an existential threat. If anything, Russia is quite ideologically align with the current administration. The only conflict is about spheres of influences. So since the old narrative no longer serves a purpose, it was past the time to scuttle it. There is no more “alliance of equals”, even on rhetoric. The administration views Europe as old, militarily weak, poor and technologically lagging, so it was time to put it in its place. It is back to “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”.
On the other hand the Western European countries, used to being the global historical protagonists since the 15th century, were caught completely flat footed by this drastic change of narrative. They now face the grim reality that they are relegated as mostly passive bystanders as the ruling global powers carve out the world in a new order of sphere of influences.
It is the last nail on the coffin of Fukuyama’s “the end of History”. Turns out that liberal western democracies were not the definitive victors of the global struggle and history rolls on inexorably.
WorkingFit5413 on
I mean they’re watching the US try to implode the current world order system and just be the front of thr regime that’s taken ahold of the US, all the while he’s batshit crazy most days and non Americans think he’s the craziest.
Opens up room for new allies to collude and gives countries more leverage too.
Of course Russia is thrilled.
Fullmadcat on
Of course they are thrilled, its creating a power vacuumed.
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This article looks at how Russian officials and commentators are reacting to renewed U.S. interest in acquiring Greenland and the resulting strain between the U.S., Europe, and the UK. It describes Moscow’s public mockery of European unity and NATO cohesion, including commentary about divisions over Greenland and support for Ukraine.
It’s equivalent of China invading Belarus. It’s really that ridiculous.
US: “This is about stopping Russia.”
Russia: “Amazing, keep going.”
All according to script.
Yet Russia also recently condemned the US’ attempt at taking over Greenland. Even they are not consistent with their messaging.
At the end of WW2, in order to contain the existential threat represented by the USSR, the US put together a narrative of “an alliance of equals” amongst the liberal Western democracies. NATO, the IMF, World Bank, etc… were put in place and that alliance stood against Communist expansion coming from the East.
30 years after the collapse of the USSR, the current powers that be in the US decided that this narrative no longer had a purpose or served a function. Russia is an adversary, but it is definitely not an existential threat. If anything, Russia is quite ideologically align with the current administration. The only conflict is about spheres of influences. So since the old narrative no longer serves a purpose, it was past the time to scuttle it. There is no more “alliance of equals”, even on rhetoric. The administration views Europe as old, militarily weak, poor and technologically lagging, so it was time to put it in its place. It is back to “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”.
On the other hand the Western European countries, used to being the global historical protagonists since the 15th century, were caught completely flat footed by this drastic change of narrative. They now face the grim reality that they are relegated as mostly passive bystanders as the ruling global powers carve out the world in a new order of sphere of influences.
It is the last nail on the coffin of Fukuyama’s “the end of History”. Turns out that liberal western democracies were not the definitive victors of the global struggle and history rolls on inexorably.
I mean they’re watching the US try to implode the current world order system and just be the front of thr regime that’s taken ahold of the US, all the while he’s batshit crazy most days and non Americans think he’s the craziest.
Opens up room for new allies to collude and gives countries more leverage too.
Of course Russia is thrilled.
Of course they are thrilled, its creating a power vacuumed.