The act of cowardice in the west, history repeats itself
Trouble began to stir in Czechoslovakia during 1938 with a group of German separatists instigating forming an alliance with Germany.
The 2 countries with strong military presence at the time, England and France were reluctant to stand their ground in support of a unified Czechoslovakia, leading to the splitting of the country into 3 separate entities, a part of it merged into Germany, the other Hungary and Poland.
It was only when Germany under the leadership of Hitler invaded Poland that both England and France have decided to take action, by then, Germany was ready and the 2 ally countries were no match to the mighty German war machine. Eventually Germany managed to conquer the whole Europe except for England due to the natural barrier of the English Channel.
Fast forward to now, it is Ukraine that is under attack from Russia, and it is being cut apart bits by bits as we speak. Yet we are seeing the same behavior happening again with the Europeans watching while sitting on the fence.
At the beginning of second world war, most countries were still recovering from the devastation of the first world war, they have valid reason for not involving themselves for fear of weakening of their only military forces. What reason are they having now?
They simply claim that Ukraine is not part of Nato and there is no charter in Nato that they must support a certain country in war, even when it is of the weaker side. However, they are all willing to provide Ukraine with weapons while Ukraine has to fight this war on its own. In fact they have never expected Ukraine to last so long considering Russia is the opponent.
But what is the true reason for them to sit there and let Russia swallow Ukraine? I believe it is the act of cowardice.
They are in fear that should they be involve, they will drag themselves into an unnecessary warfare with Russia and their military strength will be compromised. They in fact willing to sacrifice Ukraine hoping that Ukraine in its resilient will at least weaken the Russian military so that they won't have strength to further their campaign west-ward.
The most laughable one is the United State of America, insisting that they will not send their troops for the war. They are the furthest from Russia with natural barrier, they are sure that as long as there is the natural barrier of both Pacific and Atlantic ocean, they are safe. They are the main conspirator leading to the Russia-Ukraine war, with constant bombardment of propaganda of the evil Russia. Even during the presidency of Trump, the intelligence agencies have never stopped propagating the "fact" that Russia is evil.
Yet now they are sitting furthest on the sideline, sending weapons for others to fight and die for them.
So what if they are wrong, what if the war get out of hand and Russia release the mother load of Nuclear weapons? Or they instead under estimate the military might of Russia ( considering that I still do not believe Russian troops are so weak )?
There might come one day European Union and Nato regret their decision to let Ukraine die while they anticipate the benefits it derives. All the East European countries formerly belong to the Soviet Union, they really need to reconsider as it seems like Putin is thinking of Making Russia Great Again, and first line of business is to retake what Russia has lost.
Should Ukraine survive through this ordeal, my advice to them is to trust no one and strengthen their own capability to defend themselves, because of all the people they are the only one they can trust. To be neutral in its stand, it has to have a strong military as a deterent to possible threat.
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