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Re:The Mao-Kissinger Meeting of 1973 by _kbh_ on Saturday June 10, 2023 @06:51AM (#36269406)
> Exactly. The Ukraine situation would be tantamount to Canada or Mexico entering into a military alliance with Iran -- not acceptable and a direct cause of war.

How is it any different to Finland joining NATO? (which they just did).

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Re:The Mao-Kissinger Meeting of 1973 by hutzlibu on Saturday June 10, 2023 @07:03AM (#36269470)
The difference is the shared history and language.

(also true for border regions with finnland, but way less overall as finnish is a different language family)

Russian nationalism consideres Kiev the root of the russian culture (but they might change that narrative soon).

Also, they are really not happy about it.

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Re:The Mao-Kissinger Meeting of 1973 by _kbh_ on Saturday June 10, 2023 @07:14AM (#36269513)
> The difference is the shared history and language.

I don't think a language matters with a war with NATO.

> Also, they are really not happy about it.

Yet there is no war, shows you that NATO really works as a deterrence to Russia and that it had nothing to do with Ukraine being close to Russia and in NATO.

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Re:The Mao-Kissinger Meeting of 1973 by RealityVoid on Saturday June 10, 2023 @10:01AM (#36270527)
Yes but then this very statement directly contradicts the "realpolitik" as pect so loudly touted earlier.

It's not about pragmatism, it's a sort of nationalistic fervor!

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Re:The Mao-Kissinger Meeting of 1973 by qwytw on Saturday June 10, 2023 @12:49PM (#36272174)
> Also, they are really not happy about it.

I think they are just inherently unhappy and miserable because they are Russians living in Russia.

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