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To: Timber Rattler
The beginning of this whole mess starts here: Bush Urges NATO Membership for Ukraine, Georgia We poked the bear, and now the bear has woken up.

Both countries provided men and equipment for Iraq and Afghanistan. Assuming Russia had cast off its imperial ambitions, this was probably a prelude to admitting Russia itself into NATO, thereby ensuring that Russia would never have to square off against China on its own. As it stands, China will probably eventually take all of Russia east of the Urals, when it's good and ready. And Russia will stand alone when that happens. Its silly preoccupation with the threat from the West will cause it to be blindsided by the colossus from the East.

125 posted on 05/03/2014 12:19:58 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei
Assuming Russia had cast off its imperial ambitions, this was probably a prelude to admitting Russia itself into NATO, thereby ensuring that Russia would never have to square off against China on its own.

Then what would be the point of NATO since it function was/is to defend Europe against Russia?

128 posted on 05/03/2014 1:37:06 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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It seems Russia is free to abuse and murder it’s neighbors. However, they are not allowed to defend themselves. That seems to be the basis of the paulbot/armchair isolationist doctrine.


135 posted on 05/03/2014 3:08:59 PM PDT by lodi90
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