Posted on 11/24/2024 2:18:47 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Also, it should be added that it was Trump who cajoled some of the Euro NATO countries to increase their defense spending prior to Pooty invading Ukraine, “pushed” on the US base in Poland, etc.
Gee, what a warmonger. (/s)
More nonsense. There was NEVER any chance whatsoever of Ukraine joining NATO before Pooty invaded Ukraine. Ukraine was much too big a liability in several ways (as expressed by numerous NATO members). And even if it had joined, just by NATO countries’ declining defense budgets alone, there’d be no additional offensive threat to Russia. For any of the scenarios often puked out, NATO would have to scrape up big $$ (or euros) to even make it an “way out there” idea. There was NO political will amongst the populations or leadership for this level of preparation in ANY sizeable NATO country. At very best, counterpunch capability might be a bit better, and significantly better of all the Euro NATO biggies bumped up to, oh, maybe 2.5% of GDP for defense spending. Good grief, even the Poles barely got up past 2%, and they are not even 1/10th of what would be needed.
If you get all the major Euro NATO countries back up to 4% of GDP, and the US to close to 5% — ok, now you may have a point. Otherwise IT”S NONSENSE, because the fundamentals needed for NATO to be some sort of real offensive threat to Russia simply did not exist and cannot be created out of thin air.
Pooty is smart enough to know this, but he’ll throw the “NATO threat” up as a canard anyway, as it sounds persuasive to the weak minded who have no idea about fundamentals.
More reports are popping up that Russia is recruiting in Yemen. It looks like so far, most trace back to The Financial Times. For example:
The Pro-Israel / Anti-Ukraine crowd heads are gonna explode.
Oh, wait - they should have exploded already anyway.
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