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Offensive defence: How Putin saved NATO
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/7/11/offensive-defence-how-putin-saved-nato ^

Posted on 07/12/2023 11:30:55 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE

It feels like we are worlds away from the time when French President Emmanuel Macron declared NATO “brain dead” on the eve of its London summit in 2019. Since then, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has revived and reinvigorated the North Atlantic alliance like never before in its 74-year history, as demonstrated by the enthusiasm for its summit this week in Lithuania.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aljazeera; illjizzya; marwanbishara

1 posted on 07/12/2023 11:30:55 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: USA-FRANCE

Maybe Putin is a secret agent for NATO... :)


2 posted on 07/12/2023 11:31:11 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: USA-FRANCE

Markel loves that guy.


3 posted on 07/12/2023 11:36:23 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: USA-FRANCE

He could have just asked for Russia to join NATO


4 posted on 07/12/2023 11:38:49 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: All

As if NATO was ever going to end regardless of what Putin did.


6 posted on 07/12/2023 11:43:06 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: USA-FRANCE

The NATO champagne clique is doing well. Germany could probably not send a single division. The UK has 40 operational tanks and 17 warships. The Polish army is smaller than Ukraine’s. Nobody in NATO has any 155 ammo left.
NATO is a paper entity and executive jobs project. France is on fire.
You’re in dreamland if you think Swedes, Germans and Italians are rushing the recruiting offices to go to war with a nation that cannot lose because at any such moment they can vaporize you.

But cool story bro.


7 posted on 07/12/2023 11:51:49 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DesertRhino

I don’t think you have understood what NATO truly is.

It is a defensive organization, not an offensive one.
NATO was created to stop the permanent expansion of imperialist Soviet / Russia and its advances into others homelands and territories. NATO succeed on that point.

Russias army though... was created to colonize others. Thats why Russia has 300.000 troops of invasion now in Ukraine. And NATO has ZERO troops in Russia.

You understand the difference now, I’m sure.


8 posted on 07/12/2023 12:00:23 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: USA-FRANCE

What a bunch of propaganda.


9 posted on 07/12/2023 12:00:38 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Cold Heart

Russia couldn’t join the defensive alliance formed to protect itself from it


10 posted on 07/12/2023 12:26:17 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: USA-FRANCE

Oh. “Defensive”. Is that why they attacked Libya? Did I miss Libya attacking Europe? Port And sorry Frenchy, the Russian army is about 10% of the size it was during the fulda gap days. It most assuredly is not hell bent on world domination. It’s almost comical that she would assert that as NATO really does it.


11 posted on 07/12/2023 12:48:08 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ansel12

Pretty sure that was a joke


12 posted on 07/12/2023 1:00:03 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: USA-FRANCE
Note to Eastern Commie Countries: Don't try to defeat the West, just wait until the West destroys itself.

13 posted on 07/12/2023 1:28:57 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: USA-FRANCE

NATO kids vs Zelensky
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0zokQrXgAIQbcC?format=jpg&name=900x900


14 posted on 07/12/2023 3:35:45 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: DesertRhino; All

Your comment is illogical, I was waiting for it.
The Nato intervention was a short-lived spark.
It’s absolutely impossible and unthinkable to even try to compare that with what Russia has done in Ukraine!

There was:

No NATO invasion of Libya.
No NATO troops on the ground in Libya.
No NATO annexation of Libya.

Russia though :
Has invaded Ukraine,
Has invaded with 300.000 Russian troops on the ground.
Has annexed 4 Ukrainian regions plus Crimea, declaring them “Russian territory” (!!)
Has invaded parts of Georgia
Has invaded parts of Moldova
Has been threatening the West with Nuclear strikes for over a year.
Has violated the nuclear non-proliferation treaty by sending nuclear weapons to Belarus!
Has teamed up with the world’s most anti-American countries:
North Korea, China, Belarus, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran...

Please alert yourself about what is truly happening in the world.


15 posted on 07/12/2023 6:44:52 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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