> And yet the Germans seem to have genuinely changed, and all of the other European powers gave up their hyperfixations with their respective colonialist adventures.
Germans suffered TWO humiliating defeats in world wars and had to go through painful transformation processes for decades. On top of that they’ve had support of western world.
Russians revel in numbers they’ve lost.
20 millions dead across Soviet Union? Who gives a shit? Можем повторить! (We can do it again!).
So long as kleptocracy is alive in Russia - it will never change. And this won’t happen in our lifetime.
US had to withdraw from Vietnam after humiliating defeat against Vietcong and Chinese/Soviet supplied Vietnam army after huge backlash from general population, as far as I know.
> Germans suffered TWO humiliating defeats in world wars and had to go through painful transformation processes for decades.
Looks like it hasn't worked. As soon as Germans were allowed to reunite they ran towards Russian without noticing the countries between Berlin and Moscow. Their foreign policy is as imperial as ever only this time they figured out that it's better to let the Russians do the killing. The NordStream pipelines were designed to bypass the already existing pipelines running through Poland so that Germany could have access to Russian energy resources while Russia could roll tanks across Eastern Europe.
Germans suffered TWO humiliating defeats in world wars and had to go through painful transformation processes for decades. On top of that they’ve had support of western world.
Russians revel in numbers they’ve lost. 20 millions dead across Soviet Union? Who gives a shit? Можем повторить! (We can do it again!).
So long as kleptocracy is alive in Russia - it will never change. And this won’t happen in our lifetime.
US had to withdraw from Vietnam after humiliating defeat against Vietcong and Chinese/Soviet supplied Vietnam army after huge backlash from general population, as far as I know.