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To: OKSooner
The Russo-Ukrainian War began largely because Ukraine was adamant about joining NATO, Western leaders refused to negotiate with Russia, and the American President failed to deescalate, threatening Russia’s desire to keep Ukraine as a strategic buffer amid historical and political tensions.

The war would never have started if Trump "won" in 2020.

13 posted on 01/28/2026 6:49:42 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

No, that’s just Russian propaganda, their excuse for violently attacking a nation that was not and never would be a threat but which the greedy Russian leader and his still very much Stalinist political allies see as a strategic location for their desired recreaction of a Russian empire.
Russia has no business invading another country to get real estate any more than we would have for invading Canada. The nonsense about invading Greenland is just that, it will never happen but it is in Russia’s interest that liberal loons believe it because it would excuse the invasion and mass murder Russia has perpetrated in Ukraine.


35 posted on 01/28/2026 10:31:15 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Nations do not have any right to other countries as “strategic buffers.” That’s absurd.
They may desire such but other countries are under no obiigation to recognize aggression and thievery as legitimate. it and would be wise to take such moves as warnings that the aggressor, if they aren’t made to pay the highest price for every acre, eventually intended over the coming decades to continue taking “buffer zones” until their army finds itself right next to Germany, and eventually beyond, wading in the Atlantic. Fortunately the Russians, like their Democratic Socialist friends, aren’t nearly as good at fighting as they are they are with propaganda and playing the victim.


36 posted on 01/28/2026 10:48:48 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MinorityRepublican

So Russia didn’t want to invade? They did it to help Ukraine?


39 posted on 01/29/2026 3:56:57 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
The Russo-Ukrainian War began largely because Ukraine was adamant about joining NATO... threatening Russia’s desire to keep Ukraine as a strategic buffer

Sure, NATO is the problem. In 2014 Ukraine was neutral with the majority of Ukrainians against joining NATO, and no chance of joining NATO, so Putin seized Crimea.

LOL, "strategic buffer", or more accurately a subservient state. Its amazing, Putin writes a 7,000 word essay denying Ukraine's right to exist as an independent state, posts its on the Kremlin website where it still exists to this day, and everyone ignores it.

40 posted on 01/29/2026 4:09:24 AM PST by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

NO one gives a rats ass about how many foreigners died.

This thread is not about them, so stop hijacking threads to talk about russia, jackass.


63 posted on 01/29/2026 3:59:55 PM PST by CodeToad
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