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To: achilles2000

What a clueless post.

Pathetic attempts at ad hominem.

When did NATO or the U.S. Break the “agreement” you tout?


188 posted on 06/13/2022 12:28:50 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

98-99 and 2004. Again attempted in 2008 with Georgia (thwarted by Russia, which militarily restored the status quo ante and then got out), and, of course, attempted again after the 2014 coup. Kennan talked about the consequences of the first tranche of NATO expansion in his interview with Thomas Friedman of the NYT (1998?), and Mearsheimer talks about all of it up to 2015 (the date of his talk). I sent you those links. But, as I’ve written elsewhere, all forms of international agreements - formal treaties, memoranda of agreement, oral agreements, etc. - are not enforceable like domestic contracts. The parties adhere to them as long as it suits their perceived interest, and there is no “enforcement” short of some type of nation state force. Still, reneging as we did was dishonorable, but the US/NATO/Soros 2014 coup against a democratically elected government was both dishonorable and lit the fuse that resulted in what we have today. From a realpolitik point of view, the Obama/Biden/NATO policy has wrecked Ukraine, is impoverishing Europe, threatens famine in the global south, is risking WW III, is causing shortages of commodities such as fertilizer here, is threatening the demise of the dollar as the world’s main reserve currency (that is hugely important), and is driving the Russians into the arms of China.


191 posted on 06/13/2022 8:43:46 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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