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Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ... by watwut on Saturday February 26, 2022 @12:56PM (#30479919)
Nah, it is pretty clear that Russia goal is control of Ukraine. The only role membership in NATO play is that if that theoretically happened, it would be harder to attack Ukraine later on.

And there was no immenent threat of Ukraine entering nato anyway. This is just Russia using it as excuse.

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Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ... by achikin on Saturday February 26, 2022 @01:13PM (#30480115)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relatio...
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Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ... by holoduke on Saturday February 26, 2022 @12:58PM (#30479946)
Of course they want to control Ukraine. They did for 100 years. Only recently they start losing market to western companies. That is the reason why there is a war now. Russia is losing ground. NATO is gaining ground. It is that simple. The ignorance to think that the west doesn't want Ukraine being member of NATO is beyond strange. Of course they want. It brings enormous market to NATO land. all large businesses would vote yes to get Ukraine inside their sphere. Same for Russia. For them it is exactly the same.
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Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ... by janto on Saturday February 26, 2022 @01:42PM (#30480409)
It's up to Ukrainians to decide if they want to join NATO. Not businesses in another country.
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Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ... by holoduke on Saturday February 26, 2022 @02:33PM (#30480988)
If only the political level of corruption would be normal. Yes then I completely agree. But it's not. Nevertheless I agree that the people of Ukraine want no Russian control.
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Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ... by watwut on Saturday February 26, 2022 @01:24PM (#30480218)
Yeah, they suppressed their attempt to have state in 1917 and when communist regime and it's USSR ended, Ukraine finally had its independence.

Nothing obvious about Russia needing to annex surrounding countries again.

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