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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You have to be high as hell to think Ukraine would ever be in NATO at this point. All NATO countries would have to agree to start WW3.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, but that’s the bargaining chip that will be given in exchange for Russia giving back a large part of occupied land.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

There is no way in hell Russia would make such a deal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Who wants this trade? Does NATO want him gone? Who benefits?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

Trump keeps bitching about elections being postponed because of martial law. Because the Ukrainians don’t want polling places to be targets and Russia to try to interfere in other ways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are we going to repost this every day now? I've seen like ten sources here covering this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I posted this 2 days ago when it was new. I posted it because someone else posted a paywalled article and this was open to all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The whole war was about Ukraine NATO membership.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Now imagine if Cuba had more than just missiles. Imagine if it were Mexico or Canada joining the Warsaw Pact.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Goal of Putin's rethoric about NATO is his public image. War for him is good external tool to solve internal problems. He is very much capitalist with 10 palaces, 6 yachts and dozens of oligarch friends.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

No disagreements here, Putin is corrupt and guilty of war crimes. I wouldn’t defend Putin not after Chechnya, I am just stating the obvious, no country would like a hostile military alliance at its borders regardless of how criminally corrupt it may be or how good the military alliance may be.

If Ukraine wanted to join NATO it should have kept its nukes. Otherwise it had no option but to remain neutral.

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