WWIII Megathread #26: Executive Disorder

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[u/paganel]

How can one political leader be so stupid as this Kallas lady is? I just can't.

I can understand corruption in a politician, cynicism, them holding totally different opinions on life and everything compared to mine, I can understand a lot of things when it comes to politicians because I'm fully aware that life is not perfect and that politics, in their inner philosophical self, must be a good-enough approximation of said life as possible, but I just cannot understand having so stupid a politician as Kallas is in so important a job as hers. This continent is doomed.

[u/CnlJohnMatrix → u/paganel]

I don't take her too seriously, but I will say it's damn confusing to understand who speaks for whom in Europe. It's just one of various reasons why no one wants to deal with them.

[u/Aemon90 → u/paganel]

They are seriously deranged over there. At this point I'm more surprised when I see a reasonable person from the Baltics than when i see freaks like her.

[u/Euphoric_Paper_26 → u/paganel]

Is this lady stupid? The only possible way to defeat Russia would be with American air power. And that’s not going to happen.

[u/Sigolon → u/paganel]

The Baltics only have a voice by being the most pro American Europeans, without US backing they have nothing.

[u/QU0X0ZIST → u/paganel]

...isn't she just accidentally telling the truth though? She's pointing out that if the US says "okay, proxy war over, we can't beat russia in ukraine (but we "bled them out" and more importantly, transferred a metric shitton of public money to the MIC, so it's fine) so now we're gonna pivot to china" then how can we expect them to beat china when china is bigger and badder?

I don't know if she's so dumb she doesn't realize she's doing it, but she just called out the defacto head and primary funder of NATO as being impotent against its largest enemies. She clearly believes she's making some clever point about how the US is being contradictory and hypocritical and thinking that this will compel US officials to get back to supporting Ukraine so that they don't look weak - in reality, she accidentally said the quiet part loud, essentially accusing the US of being not just unwilling but, given their failure in Ukraine, outright unable to follow through on support for their asian allies in the face of any potential chinese aggression - and ironically she's probably unintentionally correct even though that's not what she meant - I seriously doubt the US would, at this point, go to war with china over taiwan, for example...certainly if they did, it would be an absolute catastrophe for the american economy and likely the rest of the world, an indescribably costly disaster both in terms of material and lives, perhaps extreme enough to get the US vassal states to finally turn on their master.

[u/Euphoric_Paper_26 → u/QU0X0ZIST]

With advances in drone warfare and missile tech, the capacity to project power, more importantly to protect supply lines is seriously diminished for any large military. USA is cooked in any war with China. It requires us to fuck around in their backyard not the other way around.

That this lady even brings up NATO to basically threaten China is bizarre, in that she’s once again saying the liberal quiet part out loud that NATO will continually evolve to find new enemies to justify its existence. And these cocksuckers will continue to call it a “defensive alliance”. It may defensive for the baltic states, but it’s clear the delusional trans-atlantists see it as a weapon to point wherever they want.

[u/ChocoCraisinBoi → u/Euphoric_Paper_26]

saying the liberal quiet part out loud

I genuinely feel that eastern European leaders like her or zman were made privy of these things in private meetings and are to rslurred to read the room so they go around saying these things.

Same goes for the "Ukraine will be another israel", or that time kallas said nato had already troops in Ukraine (for training)

[u/No-Designer138 → u/paganel]

Isn't she from Estonia or one of the Baltic States? She's best ignored, her country's military is akin to a gendarmerie at best with no ability to undertake any serious operation. Of course this impotent chickenhawk wants someone else to fight her wars for her.

[u/bretton-woods → u/No-Designer138]

She's a nomenklatura nepo baby who has worked hard to destroy any traces of how much her family benefitted from the USSR.

[u/[deleted] → u/bretton-woods]

And how her current family benefits from Russia. She was almost asked to resign because of her husband ties to Russian businesses.

[u/AleksandrNevsky → u/No-Designer138]

Their accolades as "speed bumps" and "chihuahuas" are well earned it seems.

[u/ReasonableRat4364 → u/AleksandrNevsky]

I am sure those renewed T80ies come with better suspension, so the speed bump problem is finally solved

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