Diplomats say Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine has brought back darkest memories of occupation under Stalin
Nato must be ready for Russia launching an “existential” war against the Baltic states “masked by a blizzard of disinformation”, ambassadors from the three countries have warned.
Writing exclusively for The Sunday Telegraph, the top diplomats to the UK from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said that Russia could “pivot quickly” from Ukraine to invade the Baltic.
And they said that Vladimir Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine is evoking the three countries’ “darkest memories” of occupation under Stalin.
The Estonian ambassador Viljar Lubi, the Latvian ambassador Ivita Burmistre, and Lithuania’s charge d’affaire Lina Zigmantaite, wrote the joint article to mark Friday’s 20 year anniversary of their countries acceding to Nato.
I can’t argue with your logic here, and neither can I fault your conclusion. All that being the case, though, what can US voters do in this case?
Not vote? Vote 3rd party? Do you guys even have more than 2 parties over there? Seems like you have even more of a duopoly than we do over here in the UK.
No, mathematically we’re fucked by first-past-the-post voting, which means that any vote for a smaller party is a vote effectively thrown away, because under usual circumstances no third party can ever win.
Occasionally a single third-party candidate gets in, but these are one-offs and a far cry from creating new political parties. We’d have to get in some ranked choice voting like you guys have, which is what allows you to have as many parties as can get voters to vote for them.
There are some great videos on Youtube about FPTP vs ranked choice, if anyone’s interested I’ll look them up. But that’s what our two-party political trap is currently made of in the US, and of course the two parties that benefit from this exclusivity are not going to easily let it go.