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Re:Ukraine’s President Is in over His Head by vegai_ on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:19AM (#30763215)
>He flirted irresponsibly with NATO

Ukraine has been wanting to get into NATO since 2008, and really wanted to get into NATO since Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. All this happened before Zelensky's presidency, which started in 2019.

Also popular opinion has been pro-NATO since 2014, and Ukraine is a democracy.

> and now his country is at war with a military superpower.

Russia is not a military superpower.

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Re:Ukraine’s President Is in over His Head by pbourke on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:57AM (#30763374)
> Russia is not a military superpower.

Russia is still part of a small club of countries that can send human civilization back to the Stone Age.

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Re:Ukraine’s President Is in over His Head by vegai_ on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @03:14AM (#30763444)
This is true, yes.
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