I have a certain fondness for the idea of visegrad admitting austria and becoming a strong counter-EU but oh man oh man oh manhttps://factsdomatter.co.uk/2018/02/15/reintroducing-liberty/ …
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Replying to @alicemazzy
so does Alexandr Dugin, you are in a good company
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Replying to @personnealienee
I've never actually read him but would imagine he favors it in the hopes it could be coopted by russia, whereas my hope would be a realistic bulwark against russia
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Replying to @personnealienee
military/political/cultural. russia and western europe are irreconcilably foreign to each other
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Replying to @alicemazzy @personnealienee
and the role of central/eastern europe in that conflict has been a constant since at least the partitions of poland-lithuania to the present day
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Replying to @personnealienee
warsaw pact fits cleanly into this, russia establishes a series of buffer states east of the elbe, america does the same with marshall plan and NATO
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Replying to @alicemazzy @personnealienee
the idea was always that if a real shooting war broke out sans full nuclear exchange both russia and america would be fighting in europe. not good for europe!
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ussr collapses, russia is weaker than it was, the dividing line moves east. seizure of crimea and low-intensity conflict for hegemony over ukraine is the same basic dynamic
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