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Re:There Were BGP Anomalies During the Venezuela Blackout by monocasa on Monday January 05, 2026 @10:21PM (#46508384)
> The only reason Ukraine joining NATO is a problem is if Putin/Russia (or someone else) wants to attack them.

I mean, that's objectively not true since Libya, who attacked no one, but had a NATO bombing campaign to assist their civil war.

NATO is no longer a purely defensive pact.

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Re:There Were BGP Anomalies During the Venezuela Blackout by pbhjpbhj on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:41PM (#46547544)
Who joined NATO that you're blaming the Libya military interventions on?

If your inference is true then Ukraine's membership would be entirely orthogonal to any intervention NATO took to prevent Putin from committing genocide against his own people.

If NATO would come to Ukraine's aid anyway, then again their membership doesn't matter.

All NATO membership adds is a promise of defence.

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