Depends what you mean by NATO is no more. I can even imagine some scenarios where the end of NATO might make it less likely that they would invade. It all depends on the context.

My general point was that commentators in the west (and politicians and even the local) often treat russia as they want to see it, not how it is (i.e. based on historical fact and decades of quantitative and qualitative research on society in the current iteration of the russian empire).

That’s a good point. I guess I just wish there was more pushback within the Israel (there is some, but I get the impression it’s a tiny tiny minority).

The contrast between their coverage of Gaza and their embrace of russian imperialism (with the typical "I oppose the invasion but … NATO, Nazis, bla bla) makes it difficult for me to take them seriously.

But there are some important differences.

Israel is still a democracy. A flawed and increasingly failing democracy, but they are not (yet?) on the level of russia. Which for me makes their behaviour more puzzling.

They would very much be willing to conquer the Baltic nations if the opportunity shows itself. The russians are obsessed with colonizing the baltics.

The author that you referred to, does he speak russian? Estonian? Ukrainian? I am genuinely curious.

An active fight? Yeah, that’s not going to happen.

You don’t understand russian culture and mentality. Although in your defence, this is relatively common.

I live in Ukraine and we have our own massive problems to deal with (that take up an enormous amount of mental energy), but it pains me to see the mass killings in Gaza.

I am increasingly finding it difficult to see how the Israeli colonial regime is any better than the russians (putin is a mere symptom of the broad support for genocidal imperialism in russian society).

P.S. I will add it’s annoying (in a base, reflexive sense) to see this from MiddleEastEye, they are huge supporters of russian imperialism.

US is so corrupt.

This is the kind of stuff that proves that the american oligarch regime has gone full on degenerate.

It will take very strict and no bullshit rehabilitation and justice procedures to cure them of their degeneracy.

Not denying the historical commentary w.r.t. colonialism. It’s still a conspiracy theory to think that western countries currently want Haiti to be unstable and be run by gangs.

As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, they might not want to bear the financial burden (I would speculate you need several billion USD a year for security and institution building), but it’s not like they actively benefit from Haiti being unstable.

That being said, I am open to alternative commentary from someone living there (unfortunately I’ve never been to Haiti).

What active sabotage?

This is conspiracy theory level thinking. The “West” very much wants the situation to stabilise. They might not be willing to contribute enough resources, but that’s the same thing as actively wanting Haiti to be ruled by gangs.

My bad, a little misunderstanding on my part.

We are good.

Your post implied that all countries outside of the west sided with China when this is clearly not true. I am so adamant about the because I have first hand experience with this.

Even in Africa there is a lot of pushback among the population (not necessarily the elites) against Chinese imperialism. Sri Lanka is another example where there is a measures of opposition to jingoistic Chinese meddling.

China has conflicts with countries like India and Philippines. China backs the brutal junta in Myanmar. China invaded Hong Kong.

This is a pretty simplistic take. A western tankie take if you will.

Many countries in Asia have suffered from invasions and conflicts with China.

Tankies must be celebrating.

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The definition of degeneracy.

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Why are you trying to limit my freeze peach?

Why do you hate freedumz and shiiiit?