🧵 And then there are the 'leftist'.You could say that the ones in #EastEurope who support #Kremlin are actually the ones yearning for #power , the glory days when only one group of people was holding it, without any accountability. The 'leftist' #Putin supporters in the #West are actually:
1. Completely ignorant about #EastEuropean #history and #states
2. Have some twisted romanticized vision of RU as the last herald of USSR&communism.
Russia today is an autocratic #capitalistic #oligarchy.

#NoamChomsky #Ukraine (February 4, 2022)
> It is sometimes claimed that #NATO membership increases security for #Poland and others. A much stronger case can be made that #NATO membership threatens their security by heightening #tensions.
> Historian #RichardSakwa, a specialist on #EastEurope, observed that “#NATO’s existence became justified by the need to manage threats provoked by its enlargement” — a plausible judgment.
https://truthout.org/articles/us-approach-to-ukraine-and-russia-has-left-the-domain-of-rational-discourse/

Europe’s plan to checkmate Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_G4qNvBuo

#Russia has regained much of its ability to project power abroad, but twelve nations in #EastEurope are designing a deterrence known as the #ThreeSeas.