[MeganC]

I think it puts us much closer to war against Russia.

Unless we can turn Russia around then war is inevitable. The Russians recently held a conference of Russian-speaking people in Europe and one of the big things they say they came away from the conference with was that Russian speaking people in the Baltic countries want to be reunited with Russia.

That means the Russians are laying the groundwork to invade Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia and they're using the same tactic that they used to justify invading Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and etc.

The Baltic countries are NATO partners and if the Russians invade it will mean war. Even if the US chickens out the Poles have sworn that they'll fight.

Better that we scare the Russians now instead of having to evict them from Europe like we should have done in 1945.

[castlegreyskull]

I think you are right. I doubt this resolution scares them much. I almost feel like they are antagonizing us.

[caww]

This has never been about Russia. It's about not allowing the world's largest economy (China) to establish exclusive trade and military alliances with the non-west.... Good distraction from our very open, transparent, and democratic 'Free Trade Deal with Europe', that hardly anybody talks about in the media on either side of the Atlantic.