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Re:Turkey’s inflation soars to 73%, a 23-year high, as food ... by blub on Saturday June 04, 2022 @02:40PM (#31623753)
Assuming you’re talking about Poland and Romania, the consensus was that Russia’s initial plan would have been installing a puppet government.

So they wouldn’t have had Russia as neighbor, but a Russia-friendly country, just like they did for most of the rather brief time Ukraine existed as an independent country. Or another Belarus, which Poland at least is already neighboring.

I get why these countries are nervous but Ukraine’s very very different from Romania or Poland or any other EU country.

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Re:Turkey’s inflation soars to 73%, a 23-year high, as food ... by synu on Sunday June 05, 2022 @03:45AM (#31628869)
That Ukraine doesn’t actually exist is what you hear on Russian TV, but is it actually true? I don’t think it’s quite that simple.
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Re:Turkey’s inflation soars to 73%, a 23-year high, as food ... by ratsforhorses on Monday June 06, 2022 @12:50AM (#31637340)
Honest question , how are they "very different from Romania or Poland"? Do you mean bigger? Also hypothetically if Belarus wanted to join the EU (after a regime change ofc) what would your objections be?
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