The EU and Russia.
Hi
There have been a number of posts by a member warning the UK that the EU is defending the UK against Russia.
Although peripherally related to Brexit, these matters have been going on for some years before the Referendum and as such I have decided that, to my mind at least, this subject is worthy of discussion as a separate issue.
Mods, feel free to move this thread as you see fit.
I have a different view of the matter to some others.
After the break up of the former USSR, there was a great opportunity to mend fences and remove the threat of Nuclear War in Europe.
This worked for a while, massive disarmament, a substantial reduction in the huge arsenals of Nukes etc held by both sides.
Some in the EU desperately wanted a much enlarged EU and so moved rapidly eastwards towards the Russian Border.
Russia had lost 26 million people in WW2, it is stuck in their memory, it was not going to happen again.
The Eastern European Countries, the former USSR, where a useful buffer zone, it gave them a sense of security.
The EU went all out for a land grab, bribing these Countries with massive investments in new transport links, both road and rail.
The USSR had previously deliberately kept away from doing this.
It now meant the military were hours, not days, away from the Russian Border.
Russia started to get worried, and understandably so.
The straw that broke the camel's back was the Ukraine.
Merkel and Juncker were determined to get it into the EU.
They were also determined to have an EU Army.
The Russians have a deep rooted fear of Germany, after Leningrad and Stalingrad and the mass slaughter of Russian Nationals, who can blame them?
It was time for a realisation of the situation and for the EU to back off.
Did they do it?
No, instead went hell for leather.
A large part of the Ukraine is ethnic Russian and the Crimea is a vital strategic base for them.
Stop prodding them and in particular stop this mindset, held in particular by one, of how much of a danger Russia is to the UK.
I am not the only one who thinks like this.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order...top-expanding/
For NATO, read the EU.
If Merkel and Juncker want to get in a fight, good luck to them.
We should keep well out of it.