Looks like Lukashenko wants some of that land for himself.
The west needs to full embargo his economy immediately.
I mean you’re kind of pushing the definition of own free will to it’s absolute limits. The deal is join our protection racket or we won’t help you against all the other dangerous thugs out there.
How does this play out differently if Chomsky was right about NATO expansion?
there many other levels of cooperation with NATO besides full membership. one is a Major Ally or something. other militaries train with NATO without any formal membership. nato has come in to defend non-member states as well, although the political discourse is very rightly keeps examining what happened in every war on every level.
Lol we won’t help you? The only reason NATO isn’t in Ukraine is because we are trying to avoid world war 3.
Countries beg to join NATO and only don’t because Russia threatens military destruction or reprisal.
The real racket is Russia, their vassal state Belarus is joining in on the destruction.
Again, totally agree that this invasion is completely evil and the world would be a far far better place if Putin gets domed. But lets not pretend there is any altruism involved in the creation and maintenance of NATO.
Regime change is a fools errand for sure, but sometimes (often really) despot’s just have to be removed out of pure necessity. Some pariah states like Iran/NK have been relatively non-aggressive despite their staunch anit-western stance. But invading sovereign territory takes it to another level and in cases where it appears to come from the desires of one person and to the benefit of no one, that guy’s gotta go. I think it’s that simple.
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New NBA divisions after expansion.
Add “your country avoids being completely destroyed by Russia” to the right side of that offer.
Seems like a really good deal.
I don’t know if anyone’s posted it ITT yet or if I saw it on Twitter, but that map also shows an attack into Moldova, or perhaps the disputed breakaway territory there (Transnistria).
Well, it’s the only deal going.
“Hunt down” lol. Like it’s some big secret where one of these boats is at any given moment. They all should have been seized the moment this shit started.
Center= New Belarus, South+East= Extra Russia, West= NATO buffer.