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Re:What Is at Stake in Ukraine by JumpCrisscross on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:07AM (#31039231)
> USA would go nuts

Sure, but I don’t think we’d make it policy to level Mexican cities in retribution. We’d at the very least start with sanctions.

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Re:What Is at Stake in Ukraine by postsantum on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:09AM (#31039796)
US were on the brink of a full-scale invasion when they discovered rockets on Cuba
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Re:What Is at Stake in Ukraine by JumpCrisscross on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:49AM (#31040194)
> US were on the brink of a full-scale invasion when they discovered rockets on Cuba

But we didn’t. We made specific threats with specific remedies. And there were nukes.

Russia has invaded. It never made reasonable demands. (Asking for your puppet back in power isn’t reasonable. And there was zero pretext for Crimea.) The last time there were nukes in Ukraine, Kyiv gave them in exchange for Russian security guarantees.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Secur...

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