Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker confirms NATO membership is not on the agenda, reaffirming Austria’s neutrality amid Russian warnings and a renewed debate over the country’s security policy.
I think I realized something. Only America has such a massive military budget that they need to find excuses to use it. They don’t care about the costs in money, material, people, diplomacy, or reputation.
Combine that behavior with the projectionism and fear that underpin the white empire, and people like you just assume Russia is always looking for an excuse to use its military.
What you don’t seem to understand is that no country other than the US is looking for the excuses for war. They are dangerous, they are expensive, they kill people who could be working or trading or researching, they stretch your national defenses and leave you vulnerable, they cost you diplomatic relationships even when you’re in the right, and they direct economic output towards a black hole of wealth destruction instead of towards wealth creation and public benefit.
Only the US, with its absolutely massive military budget is OK with that.
Russia doesn’t want war. It does not benefit from being sanctioned, from shrinking its diplomatic support, from reducing its political influence, from losing able-bodied citizens. In the Russian calculus, this particular act must have been so important it would be willing to take these risks.
And no, it’s not for a land grab like you empire-brained fools keep saying. Russia doesn’t have sufficient population to hold, control, and exploit a country as large as Ukraine let alone any more of Europe. The only way it can gain wealth from other nations is through alignment with the leadership of those nations, and launching a war is a sure fire way to ensure that even if they installed an aligned leader that the people would be anti-Russian for a long time, destroying years of opportunities to benefit from a Russian puppet regime.
Stop imagining every country has the same behavioral profile as the psychotic sociopathic West and start understanding that, like it or not, Russia, China, Iran, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, etc are motivated first and foremost by keeping their countries whole, safe, healthy, self-determined, and prosperous.
Maybe it’s just me, but it doesn’t even look like America needs an excuse to use its military budget.
To me, it looks like Americans have been dumping money into their military because of cultural reasons. Fear, but also a sense of superiority and “America should be the best in everything.”
Looking at the near $1 trillion American yearly military budget and how many conflicts the military actually engages in, and we can see how much a return Americans are getting on their investment.
The US dumps money into “defense” because it is under a dictatorship of capital and it just so happens that selling weapons is an extremely effective way of converting public tax dollars into private capital. The US profits from endless violence, plain and simple. “American exceptionalism” i.e. chauvinism is just how they sell it to the people at large in order to appear democratic.
Don’t forget that the combined US domestic police budgets (ignoring prisons) is something like the 3rd largest military budget in the world and now the Immigration and Customs Enforcement budget is on par with that.
The US isn’t building that much violent force because of culture. They do it because they are constantly deploying violence for their own benefits and gains.
Which stands in stark contrast to literally every other nation with the exception of the former Western European colonial powers.
I think I realized something. Only America has such a massive military budget that they need to find excuses to use it. They don’t care about the costs in money, material, people, diplomacy, or reputation.
Combine that behavior with the projectionism and fear that underpin the white empire, and people like you just assume Russia is always looking for an excuse to use its military.
What you don’t seem to understand is that no country other than the US is looking for the excuses for war. They are dangerous, they are expensive, they kill people who could be working or trading or researching, they stretch your national defenses and leave you vulnerable, they cost you diplomatic relationships even when you’re in the right, and they direct economic output towards a black hole of wealth destruction instead of towards wealth creation and public benefit.
Only the US, with its absolutely massive military budget is OK with that.
Russia doesn’t want war. It does not benefit from being sanctioned, from shrinking its diplomatic support, from reducing its political influence, from losing able-bodied citizens. In the Russian calculus, this particular act must have been so important it would be willing to take these risks.
And no, it’s not for a land grab like you empire-brained fools keep saying. Russia doesn’t have sufficient population to hold, control, and exploit a country as large as Ukraine let alone any more of Europe. The only way it can gain wealth from other nations is through alignment with the leadership of those nations, and launching a war is a sure fire way to ensure that even if they installed an aligned leader that the people would be anti-Russian for a long time, destroying years of opportunities to benefit from a Russian puppet regime.
Stop imagining every country has the same behavioral profile as the psychotic sociopathic West and start understanding that, like it or not, Russia, China, Iran, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, etc are motivated first and foremost by keeping their countries whole, safe, healthy, self-determined, and prosperous.
Maybe it’s just me, but it doesn’t even look like America needs an excuse to use its military budget.
To me, it looks like Americans have been dumping money into their military because of cultural reasons. Fear, but also a sense of superiority and “America should be the best in everything.”
Looking at the near $1 trillion American yearly military budget and how many conflicts the military actually engages in, and we can see how much a return Americans are getting on their investment.
The US dumps money into “defense” because it is under a dictatorship of capital and it just so happens that selling weapons is an extremely effective way of converting public tax dollars into private capital. The US profits from endless violence, plain and simple. “American exceptionalism” i.e. chauvinism is just how they sell it to the people at large in order to appear democratic.
Don’t forget that the combined US domestic police budgets (ignoring prisons) is something like the 3rd largest military budget in the world and now the Immigration and Customs Enforcement budget is on par with that.
The US isn’t building that much violent force because of culture. They do it because they are constantly deploying violence for their own benefits and gains.
Which stands in stark contrast to literally every other nation with the exception of the former Western European colonial powers.
OK but,
That just sounds like American culture to me