Stoltenberg bashes China for creeping closer to NATO
Stoltenberg bashes China for creeping closer to NATO
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17929697
Somehow i feel like the translation made the meaning to be reversed.
""" ... When asked about China’s ongoing military exercise with Belarus, Stoltenberg (NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg) said: “The Chinese exercise together with Belarusian forces … just confirms how authoritarian regimes are aligning more and more, and also how China is coming closer to NATO, in Europe, in Africa and the Arctic and elsewhere.” ..."""
how authoritarian regimes are aligning
Good to see this language used instead of "east vs west."
With countries all over the planet supporting Ukraine, its more accurate to say the growing tension is democracies vs authoritarian governments.
The problem I have with that kind of argument is that the US has historically been rather authoritarian, and has supported and installed extremely authoritarian governments in other countries. The US also has a history of state terrorism, invading countries and committing g war crimes to enforce their political wills onto foreign populations. That doesn’t excuse Russia or China, but the notion that the US isn’t also a major authoritarian power or is otherwise categorically different is nonsense.
Isn’t this how Fallout starts?
Need some resource wars first before it gets spicy