[Zhang Fei]

[NATO has added 12 new member states since Germany was re-unified. It’s remarkable that anyone here would still consider Russia a major threat — especially when we’ve been using their rockets and the former Soviet launch facilities in Kazakhstan to get our astronauts into space for years.]

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And Russia is 20x the land area of those Warsaw Pact states combined. The rocket thing was a major mistake. We gave up our independent satellite launch capability to pander to the Russians. They reciprocated by annexing 1/5 of Georgia. The lesson here is that territorial expansion is part of the Russian national identity. No amount of talking will change that.

The Russians gave up nothing, really, in dissolving the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. They had merely run out of resources to continue their tyranny over lands that did not want them there when they began their occupation. Are we supposed to reward them for pulling out of Afghanistan, too?

[Alberta's Child]

The U.S. doesn’t “annex” countries. We just invade them, occupy them, and prop up a government that will conduct business in U.S. dollars. We also make sure that the first order or business for the new government is to have the state-run airline shut down their fleet of Airbus jets and buy Boeings instead.

Where have you been for the last 30 years, dude?

[Alberta's Child]

We gave up our independent satellite launch capability to pander to the Russians.

Actually, I think we gave up our launch capability to resupply the International Space Station because the NASA shuttle program turned out to be a miserable failure.