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To: dfwgator

No, but had Trump been President in 2022, Putin probably would not have invaded. I would be willing to give Ukraine all the arms and ammuntion it needs to defend itself, including long range missiles, artillery, and air defense systems.

Biden was worse, far worse than Chamberlain in encouraging aggression.

When Ukrain surrendered its nuclear weapons, the U.S. and Britain gave them security guarantees, which Obama abandoned when Russia seized Crimea. Embolded, Russia sent in its Army, out of uniform, and portraying themselves as “rebels” in to eastern Ukraine. Further emboldened, Putin decided to attack Kiev and overrun the entire Ukrain. Ukrain had other ideas.

Russia sent in Russian speaking “managers” and political bosses into all the constituent Soviet republics. The fact that have substantial Russian minorities today is a byproduct of Soviet Russian imperialism, not natural or historical settlements.


87 posted on 08/16/2025 10:00:45 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Russia sent in Russian speaking “managers” and political bosses into all the constituent Soviet republics. The fact that have substantial Russian minorities today is a byproduct of Soviet Russian imperialism, not natural or historical settlements.


The Russians certainly weren’t the first to do this kind of thing.


91 posted on 08/16/2025 10:05:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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