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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by kikimora on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:19AM (#30511683)
Pardon my French but this is bullshit. Putin’s perverted logic goes like this - Ukrainian joins NATO, it establish missiles, Moscow in danger. The problem is Ukraine does not have to join NATO to have US missiles on its territory. Basic military agreement would allow that. Such an agreement technically was possible as early as 1992. The fact of life - there is no such agreement, hence whole idea of NATO or US threat to Russia is a propaganda construct.

PS: I’m Russian and I want this war to stop immediately.

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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by thinkindie on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:46AM (#30511938)
also - in 2022 you don't really need to have basis with nuclear missiles at the doorstep to be a threat (so much that Putin also escalated on this topic too). You have submarines that can launch an attack with nuclear missiles, you have intercontinental vectors to deliver nukes.

Putin is just trying to restore the idea of Russian Empire and/or Soviet Union. Same as Hitler trying to restore the German Empire.

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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by DebtDeflation on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @05:28AM (#30512330)
Also, if Russia annexes Ukraine, it now has 4 more NATO members on its borders.
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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by roca on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @05:11AM (#30512171)
Also, Russia already has NATO states on its borders, and there aren't nukes stationed there.
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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by jacquesm on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @06:50AM (#30513011)
Tiny point of order: you don't actually know that.
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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by roca on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @07:41AM (#30513390)
Maybe only America truly knows, but CND (via Wikipedia) agrees with me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing https://cnduk.org/resources/united-states-nuclear-weapons-eu...
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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by jacquesm on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @08:10AM (#30513636)
Can we take this offline for reasons that will become clear in a moment: [email protected]
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