“If Mexico had joined a Russian military alliance, bought billions in Russian weapons, conducted military exercises with Russian military on Mexican soil and had its military trained by Russians, plus ship countless planes of military equipment to Central America countries...... the US would certainly invade Mexico.”
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Except:
Ukraine hasnt joined any alliance.
Any exercises with western military was AFTER Russia stirred up fake rebellion in the east and invaded and seized Ukrainian territory of Crimea.
And the bulk of “billions of military aid” didnt happen until Russia invaded in Feb.
“Ukraine hasn’t joined any alliance.
Any exercises with western military was AFTER Russia stirred up fake rebellion in the east and invaded and seized Ukrainian territory of Crimea.
And the bulk of “billions of military aid” didnt happen until Russia invaded in Feb.”
I appreciate your thoughtful comment.
Putin is not even listening to his own people that DON’T support this Invasion with Ukraine.
Putin will either die or me run out of Russia for this invasion to end.
Have to go back a bit farther in history. NATO was an alliance to defend against the expansionist USSR. When the USSR collapsed NATO wasn't needed anymore;. When the somewhat expansionist Serbs fomented separationist rebellions in other parts of the former Yugoslavia, NATO came back to life to stop the Serbs.
But then NATO decided to support the stirring up of Albanian-supported rebellion in part of Serbia and helped invade and seize part of what was Serbia. Choosing sides in a breakup is something that Serbs and Russians remember and they end up doing the same thing themselves.
The way to stop this is to stop NATO in 1999. Stop Clinton's wag-the-dog and Albright's ancient grievances against the Serbs. Since it's too late for that, the way to do it is to stop NATO again now. Of course you'll do otherwise and Russia may be pushed out. If they are, then mark your calendar for 20 years from now for war with Russia, because they won't stay down. Sooner if they get Chinese support against the US.
Alternatively Russia will keep a chunk of Ukraine but conflict will continue at some low level. Or Russia will be allowed into negotiations for an independent demilitarized status for parts of Ukraine, maybe all of Ukraine. I don't think such an enlightened solution is likely.
“”””Ukraine hasnt joined any alliance.
Any exercises with western military was AFTER Russia stirred up fake rebellion in the east and invaded and seized Ukrainian territory of Crimea.
And the bulk of “billions of military aid” didnt happen until Russia invaded in Feb.””””
Not to mention Europe and European wars, World Wars, 100s of thousands of American deaths and tens of millions of allies’ deaths, death camps, world-class navies, constant global threats, world instability and threats of nuclear wars, world trade, etc, etc, etc, and now the biggest European war since WWII involving a long term enemy which also has the world’s largest nuclear weapons inventory and the ability and the will to end the United States and western civilization, a war in which the enemy is trying to rebuild the evil empire, etc., etc.
These efforts to compare our and the world’s interest in European wars and affairs and Russian European invasions, with the world’s and European non-interest in our part of the world, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S., is just ridiculous and silly.