Posted on 02/26/2022 3:26:55 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa on Friday said at a televised news conference that his country would send soldiers to assist Ukraine in its defense against Russia, CNN reported.
According to Costa, Russia's war on Ukraine "is a war against the freedom of self-determination of a democratic country and therefore it is also a war against the freedom of self-determination and against democracy."
He added that there is "an unanimity of all states, in view of the need to strengthen the NATO presence on the borders of Ukraine and in all the alliance countries that are close to the Ukraine region."
"Portugal, in this sense, in addition to the forces that this year has assigned to the European command of NATO, decided to anticipate, from the second half to the first half, the mobilization and commitment of an infantry company that will act in Romania and that will be projected in the coming weeks.
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Yeah...the title of this article makes it sound essentially like Portugal is declaring war on Russia.
We must quickly advance to where there are no Russians for victory!!!!! /s
“Yeah...the title of this article makes it sound essentially like Portugal is declaring war on Russia.”
I’m sort of expecting that one of the NATO powers will decide they have a moral obligation to get into this war.
But I’m not expecting that country will be Portugal.
Then why bother posting it?
“is a war against the freedom of self-determination of a democratic country and therefore it is also a war against the freedom of self-determination and against democracy.”
They know their audience really well. To the “international community” the term “democracy” means Drag Queen Story Hour. Remember the LGBTQ flag over Kabul?
For conservatives, democracy means that the trannies read the Federalist Papers to the children before molesting them. Democracy is the god that failed. Someone should write a book on that.
“They’re staying out of Ukraine and sending their 170 troops to Romania as part of NATO force”
Going all in.
Are the Russophone regions of Ukraine entitled to self-determination, according to Portugal?
I assume that Portugal believes it has a right to exist as a distinct entity, not unified as Galicia as it was prior to the Moorish conquest.
Inertia. It was already in motion. It stayed in motion.
Thanks for the clarification
Are Ruthenians supposed to separate from Poland then? Or Basques from France and Spain? India, by that reasoning, should be splintered into about 25 countries. And as for Afghanistan, fuhgeddabout it. Furthermore, Louisiana and Quebec would have to separate from Canada and the US, because they speak bastardized French. How about China? It has one writing system, but several different linguistic regions.
It’s a fake argument. Hitler used it to grab Czechoslovakia the same way Putin is doing now.
Pictures of beautiful Romanian women would inform my view about Portugal’s action.
Their source links goes to an unrelated article on their website. Double the clicks.
I’m generally in favor of separatist movements, such as Lega Nord in Italy and the Quebec Separatists.
I would prefer that the US split up, not remain under a false unity that gives us political outcomes that combine the worst features of progressivism and laissez-faire capitalism.
I’d support separatists who have actually done it, such as Taiwan and Ukraine, or Pakistan for that matter, and allow them to keep and defend their hard-won separation, because they earned it. But it’s not Plan A. America is infected with some real stupid ideas right now, but once upon a time it was infected with Puritanism, No-nothing-ism, Barn-burner abolitionists, Nativism, genocidal hatred of Indians, Jim Crow, etc. The country, unified, has overcome all that and more, because “e pluribus unum” is not just a phrase on a dollar bill.
Don’t give the Pooty boot-kissers any ideas! They’ll swarm in and declare Portugal is part of the Deep State and we’re going to war with Russia, and nuclear war will follow.
That's an intriguing idea but probably one that would be difficult to get unanimous NATO support for. It would certainly up the risk of escalating the conflict and introduce some potentially serious ramifications. One thing I think everyone agrees on is that Ukraine is not worth starting WWIII over.
To show how obvious and ridiculous the saber rattling has become?
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