I'd also like to take this time and acknowledge what a bunch of cuck faggots the EU is.
Instead of even feigning concern, or even sending a strongly worded email, they instead all went straight for 'dont do too many sanctions' because they did not want to make Russia angry. I'm not even kidding; Captain Potato literally said that in his limp wristed, 'Im the last person on earth that found out about this' press conference today. They should at a minimum be putting forces on alert and on standby for mobilization. Instead, they just want to make sure they get their gas via the pipeline they have all chained their entire futures to because it was much easier to just rely on Russia and 'nothing is going to happen' instead of overcoming their own self righteous bullshit that they tell themselves over and over as excuses as to why they couldn't become energy independent.
Had I become President or whatever it is in Ukraine, I would have lined the pipelines coming through between Europe and Russia with charges. I would have then had 7878698 press conferences, just to make sure everyone knew, that if anyone even got lost and ended up here on accident, they were all going to go up. Imagine the EU's demeanor, and how it would be different right now were that the case.
Putin invades Georgia, nothing happens. Let's just let them do that as they have a claim to it and we don't want to turn this into a bigger thing.
Putin invades Crimea, nothing happens. Let's just let them do that as they have a claim to it and we don't want to turn this into a bigger thing.
Putin invades Ukraine, and the land of 'lets pay less than 1% of our GDP into defense because someone else will protect us' doesn't want to make him angry.
It's appeasement. I wonder what happened the last time someone who was 'cultured and educated' tried that tactic, and how it worked out for them.