The Russians know all about Afghanistan debacles. The Russians will bear any cost though to stop this provocative, catastrophically destabilizing aggressive expansion of NATO. Look at the map, Ukraine would put NATO armored divisions ready to drive across the border into the very heart of Russia. Remember the domino theory. The Russians have seen the domino effect transform Poland, Hungary, the Baltic States, Bulgaria, East Germany and Czechoslovakia from allies to virulently anti Russian NATO members. The Ukrainian domino would be the last to fall before the Russian state itself begins to crumble. Putin or the Russian strongmen who’ll replace him will never allow this to happen regardless of the cost.
Why don’t you stop your stupid lies. No one was threatening Russia and you know it. NATO wasn’t doing a damn thing to Russia.
People, stop listening to jackasses who tell you Russia needed to destroy Ukraine because it’s next door on a map.
By the way, Putin himself listed a dozen other wacky reasons why he was invading - because Kruschev shouldn’t have “given away” other countries and the Ukrainian leadership are drug addicts and nazis. He said he is de-nazifying the Ukraine.
What he’s doing is seizing the second largest country in Europe, along with its people,resources and strategic position.
Putin doesn’t believe for a second the bullcrap excuses you’re making for him.
“Putin or the Russian strongmen who’ll replace him will never allow this to happen regardless of the cost.”
Don’t you DARE say that! We need to personalize this against Putin (standard Alinsky tactic, by the way), suggesting that others in Russia might also be against Ukraine joining NATO completely undermines our effort.
What are you saying? Are on the Communist side?