Converation thread

The idea that global cooperation is antithetical to national interest is shortsighted. We should be critical of free trade agreements, overbearing international organizations, and other types of agreements that hurt less powerful nations/groups for the benefit of the powerful. However, international cooperation is more powerful than nationalism, especially when it comes to national security.

If you need an example, look at Russia's war in Ukraine. On one end, you have a very nationalist Russia that has been quagmired in a nation we all expected to get run over. Its goals of preventi…  Read moreng NATO expansion through this strategy backfired: the previously neutral nations are now part of NATO. On the other end, you have a relatively solid Ukrainian army that has been able to keep a stalemate because of international support. There is nationalism present in both Ukraine and Russia. However, Ukraine has gotten ahead due to international cooperation, and that cooperation is beneficial to the security concerns for European nations and the United States. Russia, previously seen as a near peer by all, is now not even close to the Chinese and American Superpowers.