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Russian forces are building up near the Polish border in Belarus.
This is so not good....!
To the ones dismissing Putin's greater threat to the world with a 'it's not 1935' yawn, let's not forget that our borders are very close to Russia's.... Up north, where there are places in Alaska which offer a view of the Russian coastline on a clear day. One of Putin's justifications for invading Ukraine was that it had been historically at one with Russia. And Alaska? That was historically Russian, too. I bet he is really pissed off about the Russian czar handing that over to us for a bargain.
Chilling words to ponder. Could these words ring true for today's situation? Everyone hopes not, but no one knows for sure.
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Originally Posted by Vlajos
This situation seems like an area that most of the American center, left and right agree. We should be happy with that. Stop making this Biden vs. Trump. Putin is the enemy.
Indeed.
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Originally Posted by Oklazona Bound
I was listening to an interview with the Finnish President who routinely deals with Putin since they are not in NATO and are next to Russia. And he claims the past year or so Putin has changed and become more paranoid.
This would support my hypothesis that Putin is starting to develop dementia or something akin to that.
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Originally Posted by The_Sim_Mister
No the world will not risk WW3 to stop Russia. I know, i know article 5 says attack on one is attack on everyone. But the reality is the public especially in US will never support the risk of nuclear war and end of the life as we know it over those countries.
The United States used (admittedly smaller) nuclear bombs on Japan in the last world war. Don't write their use off so soon. I'm not saying I support this, but it could happen.
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Originally Posted by kdagoat
You keep spreading this propaganda on every thread. If Putin attacks NATO, WW3 will happen, NATO will NOT appease him. Either scenario that you keep bringing up, NATO is not going to let Putin do whatever he wants just because he has nuclear bombs.
This is exactly right. If Putin does invade or attack a NATO nation, that is a declaration of war and at that point he will have started WWIII, and God help us all. Hopefully Putin would be overthrown before that scenario.
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Originally Posted by The_Sim_Mister
Putin goal is not to take over Europe, his goal is to reclaim what he believes is part of Russia, specifically Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Ukraine, Belarus.
That would be a very, very big problem.
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Originally Posted by Goofball86
If Ukraine was apart of Nato right now does anyone think that would of deterred Putin from invading them?
Chilling words to ponder. Could these words ring true for today's situation? Everyone hopes not, but no one knows for sure.
Indeed.
This would support my hypothesis that Putin is starting to develop dementia or something akin to that.
The United States used (admittedly smaller) nuclear bombs on Japan in the last world war. Don't write their use off so soon. I'm not saying I support this, but it could happen.
This is exactly right. If Putin does invade or attack a NATO nation, that is a declaration of war and at that point he will have started WWIII, and God help us all. Hopefully Putin would be overthrown before that scenario.
That would be a very, very big problem.
Yes, absolutely.
Then the question should be why hasn't Nato admitted Ukraine in to their alliance?
IMO we should of never expanded Nato the way we did. If Ukraine was apart of Nato right now does anyone think that would of deterred Putin from invading them?
Very possibly yes. If the Ukraine was a part of NATO that would be a direct attack on the West aka WW3, rather than an attack on a small not very powerful country. Chances of a military success would drop from over 99% to less than 1%.
The only reason Putin did this was because he knew the west would do nothing about it.
There is no longer a worldwide ideological threat to the American capitalist world order. We've reverted to balance of power politics, which is ideologically neutral and if anything strengthens domestic social order because of a common enemy.
Given that Americans and our leadership no longer perceive a threat to our way of life from any foreign country, I don't think we would start ww3 to defend any ally.
You mean after they committed numerous war crimes?
I don't get your point.
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