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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Tell me about the future of this Russian proxy war.
 
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Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”

demonicon posted:

Ukraine isn't a NATO country so a full blown war has a very low probability right now.

In my country (Germany) media is pushing for a hard stance toward Russia. But when you talk about that with people and friends most don't seem to care or think this conflict is far away.

Germany will most probably try to assume the position of an arbitrator in the upcoming conflict. If you look at the last 200 years we have been mostly very friendly with Russia, being close allies at times and even owing the formation of germany to Alexander's victory over napoleon.

So if there was as third world war to begin, Germany might very well fight on the side of Russia at the end.

If this is what your average German thinks then your average German must be loving retarded. By the same logic the US should be bitter enemies of Britain because they burned down the White House 200 years ago.

Germany is surrounded by countries that would not tolerate a German/Russian alliance not to mention the fact that German contains 10's of thousands of troops from the worlds only superpower. Germany would pretty clearly be fighting against Russia. The alternative is Germany being curbstomped and turned into a smoldering ruin.

The whole idea of Germany being some kind of arbiter between the West and Russia is complete nonsense and hasn't accomplished anything. 70 years ago Germany caused the deaths of 20+ million Russians, neither Putin nor Russia give a flying gently caress that a bunch of Germans look back on the good ol' friendly days other than as a means to further their own foreign policy goals by trying to fracture NATO.

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