Pekka Kallioniemi on Nostr: This isn’t particularly new. We’ve been here before. Chechnya, #Georgia, #Crimea, ...

This isn’t particularly new. We’ve been here before. Chechnya, #Georgia, #Crimea, #Donbas, #Syria. Each time, Europe’s response was weak. Each time, it sent humanitarian #aid and hoped the #Kremlin would come to its senses, as if it were just having a tantrum and not executing a long-term imperialist project. Even when #Putin turned Belarus into a vassal state and built military bases along #NATO’s border, too many in Brussels and Berlin whispered, “Let’s not escalate.”