InTheWild wrote:
Honey69 wrote:
InTheWild wrote:
It's not that simple. If you poke a bear long enough, it's going to attack. This invasion was 30 years in the making. Now it's time to end this madness and stop all the death and destruction.
You're saying that Ukraine somehow "provoke" Putin to attack? Thirty years ago?
Putin is a disgusting piece of and corruption. He needs to go. To prison.
I'm saying NATO expansion to the borders of Russia was a huge factor. We assured Gorbachev that NATO wouldn't expand one inch beyond the border of a reunified Germany.
There's a lot of corruption in the world, we're neck deep in it. We're being lied to constantly by our media. Putin ain't a good guy, but neither are any of the world leaders. They don't care care about dead Ukrainians. They don't care about human life.
That argument ignores certain realities.
-Russia has the biggest nuklear arsenal in the world. Why would NATO want to deal with that? Everyone was shiteing their pants at the prospect.
-NATO is a DEFENSIVE alliance.
-NATO wasn't pulling its weight in terms of military spending. Trump was pissed because NATO was expecting AAAmeria to do all the heavy lifting. It doesn't sound like NATO was a particular threat to pootin.
It was erroneously thought that Russia had the second most powerful military in the world. The Ukrainians have shown that was a myth.
Conquering Ukraine in 3 days? "I don't think so, Tim".
-pootin wanted to join NATO also. For whatever reason, it didn't eventuate.
-pootin is an imperialistic expansionist. He has "gobbled up" other sovereign countries "To make Russia great again".
Many are convinced he used false flag operations to invade Chechnia to gain greater political support from the ppl.
I have no doubt believing that.
In conclusion:
pootin would use any excuse to "Make Russia great again".