So like Trump you don’t feel being part of NATO is a good thing? You realize that without those defensive weapons now in place the whole of the Baltic’s and probably all of Eastern Europe would be under Russian control? These are questions that I would like to hear your position on, I’ll wait, thanks.
Doubtful. The Russians regard Ukraine as their homeland and the "Völkerrecht" gives him a bit of argumentational legitimacy here. Not so much vs the Balkan etc... he's not trying to re-establish the Warschauer Pact but to reclaim land & access to the Black Sea by portraying it as a domestic affair internally added by a huge propaganda hoax of "him vs the Nazi's".
Some of us remember that. The Monroe Doctrine thing is sort of one sided.
If missiles pointed at Russia close to their borders are defensive, could Russian missiles in Cuba, Mexico or Argentina pointed at the USA also be defensive?
Nice to know someone can read Vlad's mind! People are saying he appears mad, it could be a act, or he could be loosing his marbles. Stalin would have taken as much of Europe as he could, right up to the coast of France, Vlad is his heir.
Considering nobody wants to help because russia bought america.blackmails europe with gas and has china as support. Nato is useless
Nuclear weapons have the most to do with it, Russia has 6000 of them and nobody quite knows if Vlad is mad. He might be crazy enough to nuke someone and it can rapidly evolve from there to something most unpleasant, your iphone would never work again!
Nice to know someone that can read Stalin's mind!
Stalin is dead and his intentions are a matter of historical fact. I'm Canadian and we were at war a week after the UK in 1939. American industry was geared up for war since the late1930's when European arms orders flowed in. Stalin murdered most of his top military officers and it was only post WW2 when he had the mighty red army at his command that such things became possible. Pre WW2 Finland defeated the Red army FFS, it was the German attack that really created the red army, but not before massive losses of men and territory. Churchill knew of Stalin's post war ambitions, Roosevelt not so much, Truman was a fast learner.
You dismiss the isolationist sentiment that was strong here in the 20s and 30s. That was not broken until late ‘41, at which point we went all in.
Soo owning most nukes means owning the world nice to know.allsoo helps he has anti missle diffence that can take out rockets outside of russia.meaning only border countries can nuke him rest would be activated outside of russia making frendly fire.soo there is a huge reason for him not wanting nato on his borders
Sooo I guess Poland and Romania are next?
He already has NATO on his borders with the Baltic states. This is not about a military threat to Vlad, the EU is more of a threat than NATO, it's about democracy and the benefits of liberal democratic society, the people in Russia live like shit and Vlad needs a buffer. There are some aspects of cold war 2 he will like, it will isolate Russia from the rest of the world, not just the west.
These days the USA has stealth cruise missiles that can strike from thousands of miles away and stealth drones too, you don't need to be as close any more and nuclear submarines are closest of all. War is well thought out and very nasty business these days, folks play for keeps.
I have no clue what he is trying to achieve but by these actions I doubt anyone knows for sure what would have been considering what is happening now.
Yea like russia never hacked usa.every stupidthing you do you write somewhere allways
