Re:Biden says he's now convinced Putin has decided to invade...
by AnimalMuppet on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:39PM
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> Why would Putin adopt strategies straight from Alex Jones (crisis actors and false flags? Those things aren't real)
Yeah... read about "Canned Goods" in the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Those things are in fact real, at least some of the time.
> Russia has been conducting the same military exercise on UA boarder for more than a decade. Why the panic now?
Because Putin is saying that if we don't refuse to admit Ukraine to NATO, forever, then Putin is going to have to resort to military measures. ("It's your fault I'm beating you up!") And because it's at the same time as the exercise in Belarus, and the exercise in the Black Sea. And because there seem to be considerably more preparations for really using the troops this time around.
> Why do we welcome all ex soviet states to EU or NATO but not Russia?
First, we didn't, either to EU or to NATO. Both have entrance criteria; not all countries meet them. (Ukraine, for instance, doesn't at this time.) Second, specifically about NATO: They want into NATO because they want protection from Russia. Russia keeps wanting to play "realpolitic" and "spheres of influence", and everybody else in the neighborhood is sick and tired of being on the receiving end. They want out of Russia's sphere of influence; NATO is a good step toward that.
Yeah... read about "Canned Goods" in the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Those things are in fact real, at least some of the time.
> Russia has been conducting the same military exercise on UA boarder for more than a decade. Why the panic now?
Because Putin is saying that if we don't refuse to admit Ukraine to NATO, forever, then Putin is going to have to resort to military measures. ("It's your fault I'm beating you up!") And because it's at the same time as the exercise in Belarus, and the exercise in the Black Sea. And because there seem to be considerably more preparations for really using the troops this time around.
> Why do we welcome all ex soviet states to EU or NATO but not Russia?
First, we didn't, either to EU or to NATO. Both have entrance criteria; not all countries meet them. (Ukraine, for instance, doesn't at this time.) Second, specifically about NATO: They want into NATO because they want protection from Russia. Russia keeps wanting to play "realpolitic" and "spheres of influence", and everybody else in the neighborhood is sick and tired of being on the receiving end. They want out of Russia's sphere of influence; NATO is a good step toward that.