Originally Posted by UPhiker
Originally Posted by irfubar
Originally Posted by Middlefork_Miner
Originally Posted by irfubar


A bigger reason Putin invaded was NATO aggression I believe.


Please excuse my ignorance…. But what NATO aggression are you referring to????

Just last month your hero was claiming that there was going to be no invasion of Ukraine….. that it was all hype and anti Russian disinformation….


Hope this helps

Oh and who is my "hero" ?


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Maybe if Putin wasn't threatening to take back "historic Russian land (BS)" like the Baltic states, countries wouldn't want to join a defensive pact. Nobody forced anyone to join NATO. They did it of their own free will. Nobody wants parts of Russia, Russia wants other countries.


Didn't Putin say that he wanted to reunite the former Soviet Socialist Republics under the umbrella of a new Russian Empire? They probably could have stayed close to Russia, like Belarus has, but they chose to be independent when the opportunity came along with collapse of the Soviet Union?

To my way of thinking, what Putin has done in Ukraine is analogous to what Hitler did by annexing Czech Sudetenland in 1938. The British and French let it happen and that just emboldened Hitler to start WW2 in September 1939.

I don't know what the truth is, as all media puts its own spin on the facts, but I doubt that any of you know what is fact and what is spin any more than I do.

If Putin has accomplished anything, he has frightened the European NATO members enough so that they are pledging to spend more money on defense in the event of war with Russia.