Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection

Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The newspaper has to try to get its clicks. This is why they keep repeating the same stories over and over again, acting each time like it’s the first that anyone has ever heard of the situation…

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    Ironically with the Fediverse crowd, they would do far better to be genuine.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Well I was focusing chiefly on the title but the article itself isn’t entirely unlike my description either.

        Once again blind-sided by Trump, European leaders read paragraph after paragraph of the US proposal with a mixture of disbelief and panic.

        It is not like Trump won the election yesterday, or that he was President for 4 years previously. Feel free to be shocked… but (hopefully) not that shocked.

        Then the article ends with a very pointed:

        But Europe has vowed to get its act together so often. Inertia, not Russia, may have become its own worst enemy.

        Which seems somehow familiar…