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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by rodgerd on Thursday May 12, 2022 @06:47AM (#31352050)
How has appeasement worked out in Chechnya, the invasion of Ukraine and seizure of Crimea, Georgia, shooting down a civilian airliner?

What shall we give Russia this time? Then when they come for Poland or Romania, who do you suggest we offer to rape and murder?

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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by tsimionescu on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:16AM (#31353676)
Given that Russia couldn't even cleanly occupy Ukraine, it's laughable to suggest they could attack NATO countries such as Poland and Romania.
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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by mindslight on Thursday May 12, 2022 @11:55AM (#31355955)
That doesn't follow. Even though Russia has not been able to occupy most of Ukraine, they've still been able to attack the civilian population. Either through medium range missile strikes, or with occupation forces committing war crimes before being pushed back (to put it mildly). I assume the citizens of Poland and Romania much prefer being able to go to a shopping mall without being subject to missile strikes.
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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by trasz on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:39PM (#31358357)
Russia wouldn’t be able to hurt Ukrainian population if the latter had proper Air Force.
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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by agapon on Thursday May 12, 2022 @04:19PM (#31359692)
Very few countries in the world have "proper" air force.
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