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Do yourself a favor and look at a map. NATO is four letters, and "MAP" is three. Even you can handle that much exercise, I think.
Not even trying to parse what you might mean by "near," Your argument is ignorant nonsense. ETA for all that I still came up one short, because I forgot Estonia. There are FOUR NATO nations already bordering Russia: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Norway. If Russia annexes Ukraine, it will immediately ADD Poland, Bratislava, Hungary and Romania to its list of NATO neighbors. If in response to the threat, Finland joins NATO, another will be added however the war in Ukraine comes out. |
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Does that not hold for Ukraine as well? If the Russians have weapons the Ukrainians must get rid of them or the Russians will (and are) kill(ing) them.
This puts your "What causes it" inquiry firmly at the feet of the Russians. As the instigators, invaders and for simply having weapons, as you remark above. Necessitating that the Ukrainians "have to get rid of" the Russian weapons. |
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Before the stupid bitch invaded, we had given Ukraine Stingers and Javelin missiles. These weapons systems have a fairly short range. To avoid being killed by these weapons, all the Russians had to do was not be in Ukraine.
We didn't give Ukraine ballistic nuclear missiles like the Soviets sent to Cuba. We gave Ukraine anti tank and anti aircraft missiles with a range of three miles (ish). This is so simple. How do you not grasp such an obvious concept? |
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https://news.yahoo.com/russian-gener...115447368.html
I do love to see stories like this. Another Russian general killed by Ukrainians, hopefully with NATO weapons. |
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This was your opinion, that if country X has weapons country Y has to get rid of them (country X's weapons) otherwise country X will kill them. Don't hide from your own opinion/assertion or pretend that it is someone else's.
So again, does that assertion apply to the Ukrainian's as well, regrading them ( the Ukrainian's) having to get rid of the Russians weapons? |
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It's sad to see someone so fully taken in by Russian propaganda.
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They haven't invaded the Ukraine or even Russia, so your "would do" is rendered irrelevant by their 'haven't done'.
Since you've avoided the question again, does your assertion apply to the Ukrainian's as well, regrading them ( the Ukrainian's) having to get rid of the Russians weapons? |
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Sure they do, they get tax exemptions and enough money from various sources to have their own dedicated media organizations.
Christian media organizations And that is just one particular brand of religion. |
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The leaders of NATO tell to Putin, if you kill us, we will kill you, what a stupid answer!
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Actually, what they're saying is, "if you attack any one of us, we'll all fight back". And it isn't really an answer, unless Putin specifically asked, "what will you do if I start killing people in your country?". Saying, "don't attack us or we'll fight back" isn't an answer, it's a statement.
Do you expect them to respond, "If you attack us, we'll just do nothing as you pick off one country after another"? That would be a stupid thing to say. Putin was upset about the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO, because it would mean it wasn't potential prey any longer, and his fantasy of resurrecting the glory days of the USSR would slip away. He thought he'd flex his muscles and take over Ukraine, looking like a badass and intimidating everyone else. But the corruption that rotted the Soviet Union from within (which he pretended wasn't the cause of death of the Communist paradise, blaming it on Western sabotage) was carried over to the new kleptocracy that he was so instrumental in entrenching and which has carried the rot even deeper into heart of Russian society. That rot has weakened the Red Army from within. So, aside from the horrors of dead children, women and men, it's almost funny that Putin's plans have only shown the world the weaknesses of his own military, and the ineffectiveness of his sycophantic advisors. He's like a guy in a bar who tries to punch out a visibly smaller man, and audibly herniates himself in the process. |
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Once again, you do not know what you are talking about.
After all, considering that Putin is a mass murderer, that Putin is greedy corrupt thief, that Putin is a huge liar, and most recently, that Putin is a mass rapist, Then the warning that the NATO leaders are providing to Putin is actually a very smart answer. And if Putin does actually go to war with NATO, then Putin and his lackeys will soon Putin is the most incredibly stupid leader that Russia has ever had. |
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Are you able to appreciate the difference between killing civilians (bombing a maternity hospital, for example) and killing an armed soldier who has invaded your home and is part of an army that is killing civilians?
I guess if you were in your own house and someone burst in and started shooting your family members, and you had the ability to defend your family by killing the invader, you'd just sit there passively because, to you, killing someone who's actively killing innocent people is exactly the same as killing innocent people. If that's your god's judgement, then your god is incredibly ******* stupid. |
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If they see that the conquest will cost them too much in loss of life on the Russian side they will use the atomic bomb as the Americans did in Japan
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