An interesting discussion, but I’d like to come at it from another angle.
My father was born in Lviv—then known as Lemberg, Galicia, Austro-Hungary,
pre-WWI–and one of my new granddaughter’s other grandparents was born in the
same city —then Lvov, Ukraine SSR. In between it was Lwów, Poland.
Thanks for your response Prem. I am glad to hear an outside perspective in
the first person. We are entering a geopolitical age where new borders and
spheres of influence will be set up whether one likes it or not. When war
becomes a whole-of-society effort, as it is now, the consequence can only
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwj3WtrQZaw
(20m46s)
(with thanks to Harv S)
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Felix gets it, imo.
Not sure about elsewhere, but the 'special relationship left' — the US
certainly and the UK as well, I think — has been stuck in a rut. OT1H hard-ish
doctrinaire 'anti-imperialist' formations robotically denounce NATO in the
monolithic, one-sided terms Felix points out;
Hi Brian,
Good to hear from you and to be in an exchange of thoughts with you once again.
My thoughts:
Let me start with your question on NATO’s eastward expansion. Yes - on
principle, one cannot deny the freedom of the Eastern European states to choose
their alliances. But the consequences
On 10.03.22 06:02, Brian Holmes wrote:
Here's the thing though. Should Nato really have denied entry to all
those Eastern European states that requested it? Remember that most of
those states, they had been taken over but not absorbed by the Soviet
Union. They lived for decades under
