Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian response, Russia warns

Re:Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian respon... by TheOtherHobbes on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:51PM (#30471537)

Then presumably Georgia, Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and the rest were also attacked because they wanted to join NATO?

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Re:Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian respon... by dragonwriter on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:27PM (#30472576)

> Then presumably Georgia, Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and the rest were also attacked because they wanted to join NATO?

Georgia (of which South Ossetia and Abkhazia are part), yes, pretty explicitly. Chechnya is a different and long-running conflict (the Chechen Wars, in terms of their initiation, predate the late 1990s NATO expansion.)

Georgia still wants to join NATO.

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Re:Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian respon... by pakitan on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:09PM (#30471768)

Did I say that the only reason to get invaded by the Russians is wanting to join NATO?

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Re:Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian respon... by alkonaut on Friday February 25, 2022 @06:31PM (#30473674)

In 2014 I believe it was joining the EU. Or perhaps it was electing a pro west government. Or perhaps it’s simply having free and fair elections that triggers Russian aggression. Who knows.

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Re:Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian respon... by CRConrad on Monday March 07, 2022 @06:54AM (#30586687)

So you're admitting Putler will use pretty much anything and everything as a pretext... And still advocating caving in to him on every pretext he can come up with?

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