Re: Echoing Aaron Maté: Why didn't Putin pre-war threaten to stop oil+gas supplies or hike prices? Archived Message
Posted by Dovetail Joint on January 26, 2023, 1:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Echoing Aaron Maté: Why didn't Putin pre-war threaten to stop oil+gas supplies or hike prices?"
I ghink Mate and Choksky's 'arguments' are faicle. Didn't the Russians spend years attempting to get the West to wake up to what was happening in Ukraine and understand the dangers and potentially catastrophic consequences of their actions? That it would lead to war? The Russians also delivered two draft treaties to the West relating to arms control, troop reductions in border areas, removing offensive missiles and a proposed structure for ensuring the broad and mutual, reciprocal, security safeguards for all countries in the region and in wider Europe. As far as I recall all of this was not just ignored by the West but treated with something close to contempt. The West believed that Russia was so weak economically and militarily that they just had to suck up whatever the West presented them with, because they had no choice.
|
Message Thread:
- Echoing Aaron Maté: Why didn't Putin pre-war threaten to stop oil+gas supplies or hike prices? - Jim_Carlucci January 26, 2023, 12:39 pm
- Re: Echoing Aaron Maté: Why didn't Putin pre-war threaten to stop oil+gas supplies or hike prices? - Dovetail Joint January 26, 2023, 1:07 pm
- A 100,000 strong Ukie army with heavy equipment was threatening the Donbass. That's an imminent - sashimi January 26, 2023, 1:09 pm
- That would only make sense if .. - Tomski January 26, 2023, 2:00 pm
- Re: Echoing Aaron Maté: Why didn't Putin pre-war threaten to stop oil+gas supplies or hike prices? - Ken Waldron January 26, 2023, 3:26 pm
- Mates comment presupposes an agreement capable, non hubristic, non supremacist western elite - Focus January 27, 2023, 2:41 am
|
|