Gentlemen, I had a revelation tonight. Kind of like Crazy Horse sitting on a hillside of the Black Hills and having a vision, or, as Jules from "Pulp Fiction" would say, a moment of clarity.
Here I've been this entire time defending Russia (harhar) against NATO expansion, understanding that Russia, while crazier than your family at a Sunday after-church dinner, is paranoid about its history of invasions. No wonder they don't want NATO expansion!
But then I thought, "Hey, volprof (or whatever your name actually is), hasn't Europe been invaded from the south and the east before? Might Europe want buffer zones too?
And I was like, "Yeah, totally. What the ****!"
Why should Russia be the only country on Earth entitled to buffer zones?
And, furthermore (and I've mentioned this before), why is Russia the only country on Earth entitled to a missile defense system?
Double-standard much?
Good, god!
I guess we mostly just let them pass because they're a big bad ("united") wolf, whereas it's easier to pick apart the individual pieces of Europe. "Hey, you can't have a missile defense or be shielded! You're just a pony for the US!"
Yeah, that Russian rhetoric is wearing thin now. I'm seeing through it. Supporters of freedom, my ass! They just want a bunch of weak, disconnected European states so they can sell them energy for dollars on a penny.
