78 sats \ 12 replies \ @didiplaywell 26 Aug \ on: Ukraine: Further attempts at escalation news
From a libertarian point of view, you want no war, that's a given. But once it starts, if it affects you even indirectly, you do want to take a stance. In this case, if Russia conquers Ukraine, Europe comes next. But, this is the first time I'm seeing little to no difference between Russia and Europe. Europe is devolving into a Russian-style dictatorship, plus the cultural decadence. It's insane that we have come to the point where we are comparing two regimes and the Russian one comes out as the least culturally decadent. It's almost comical at this point.
The European collapse into a socialist dictatorship that little has to envy to Russia makes me for the first time think that a neutral policy is both correct and viable. Who are we helping here? Which socialist regime? Does it makes sense to chose anymore? ...what a tragedy...
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No doubt in my mind that's the way. My concern is how difficult the evolution will now become. I never, in my life, thought I would feel safer in Argentina.
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Russia won't conquer Ukraine. Putin wants a buffer zone and neutrality, i.e. no expansion of NATO
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No better way to avoid that neutrality than invading Ukraine, ensuring NATO is now obliged to annex it into the alliance and prompting all other previously neutral states to join as well. The cartoonish delirium Putin has exhibited is beyond words and will go down in history. I still can't believe it.
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Ukraine won't join NATO because they don't have the votes especially in USA where 67 Senators have to approve
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Retaliation is key. Such brutality from Russia can't be accepted as "diplomacy". You do not negotiate with terrorists. Ukraine will join NATO, that's a given.
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Ukraine is too poor and corrupt to qualify for NATO membership
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He has just achieved just that. From a recent note:
"Finland - which has a 1,340km (832 mile) land border with Russia - joined in April 2023. Sweden became a member in March 2024. Both had applied to join in May 2022, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, having been neutral for decades. Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Georgia also hope to join Nato."
Utter folly and fatal conceit from a senile delirant dictator who lost the very last connections he had with reality.
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Here is a brief history of NATO:
founded in 1949 with 12 original members
When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, NATO had 16 members
Today there are 32 members, the alliance doubled after the collapse of USSR!
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Ukraine and Georgia are redlines for Russia, not just Putin.
32 members are enough, we don't need more!
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