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Originally Posted by Hugh
If "neo-realist’" is agreeing with someone who wanted to give up the Falkland Islands, cut the U.K. Defence Budget to zero because, with the end of the Cold War, there wasn’t a threat from Russia any more, and who claimed that being a white man in the 21st century is the same as being a black man 30 or 40 years ago - go for it…
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Not sure the definition in the article is that exhaustive tbh, or that someone’s flawed social views (the white man reference) renders their views all of their views as irrelevant or without merit.
Such an absolutist view would however certainly explain how everyone who even countenances the notion of anything less than 2022 borders, Crimea and Putin at The Hague is a Putin sympathiser.
The definition alluded to in the article merely cites objective facts.
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In fact, he was merely joining the school of “neo-realists” who have emerged in response to a sequence of inept western interventions in conflicts across the continent of Asia.
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Haphazard adventures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya might be good for shareholders of the military industrial complex - a bit like a forever war at the Russia/Ukraine border - it certainly left global security no better off.
Fundamentally the fact the Guardian are printing this at all, at the same time the BBC are encouraging sympathy for the poor reluctant conscripts. This isn’t chance. The 2022 flag wavers are being prepared to be let down gently. The next phase will be promoting the voices of Ukrainian refugees wanting to go home, living in turmoil in the west. Women and children isolated from their family. Puff pieces that tug at the heartstrings.
Those stuck in the Cold War narratives will be apoplectic at the concession to Putin but everyone else will just move on to the next big thing.