This is the price the EU has to pay for having wanted to expand to the East without verifying that the annexed countries were meeting requirements or were mature enough democracies. And the price to pay is immobilism today (in a situation that would rather require action) and doom tomorrow.
But, since we are on Lemmy where the average user goes like "Europeans are ex-colonialist capitalist exploiters and need to be eaten alive", in the end I think the situation is going towards the better for humanity.
Europeans are ex-colonialist capitalist exploiters and need to be eaten alive
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Surely only immature democracies could ever make such a wrong headed decision as choosing to support Russia's position. Mature democracies, who have spent centuries developing their ability to think critically through the creation of race science, eugenics, colonialism, and most importantly that sticky wicket known as neocolonialism, only these democracies who have struggled with such difficult thinking topics could ever come to the correct conclusion, which is that a nuclear armed transnational military without democratic accountability should be allowed to occupy the border across which 2 of those mature European democracies invaded Russia and killed millions.
When Ukraine gets it's military equipment, intelligence, diplomatic and economic support to carry on the war I wouldn't call it independent either. It's a US/NATO Proxy
