Posted on 07/13/2025 12:47:23 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
Russia is more than a millennium old with a long diplomatic history. Some of Russia’s difficulty may come from the U.S. elites’ ignorance of Russian history and its sensitivities to real or perceived threats of foreign invasion. Many Americans remember the huge drama which arose during the Kennedy presidency when the Soviets put a few missiles in Cuba. Foreign policy wonks still talk about how close we came to World War III.
Americans who do not know or acknowledge Russia’s history are unable to understand Russian thinking, thus compromising their ability to consummate agreements with Russia.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. political elites promised not to move NATO east into former Warsaw Pact countries. Every time another former Warsaw Pact nation was added into NATO, the Russians complained and the West shrugged off the complaints. They believed Russia was too weak due to their struggle to recover from the ruinous Soviet years. Washington’s attitude was, “So what are you going to do about it?”
U.S. leaders also have spent years engaging ad nauseam in threats to weaken or break up Russia, to ruin the Russian economy, to change the Russian regime—and, of course, have levied decades of never-ending sanctions. This behavior has eroded the trust necessary to negotiate in good faith.
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For you to make that statement about support for President Trump, is less than pathetic.
What a joke.
Yeah support for DJT is delusional.
On the Bizarro Planet.
Russia is crap on the USA’s show, as is the rest of the World.
No, America is at the beginning of restoration.
Stop that nonsense, you sound like a leftist
Alrighty then.
I contend that the United States of America has been at least as dangerous and evil in my lifetime as any other country in the world.
Prove me wrong.
I’ll just settle for proving you anti American.
No one has any use for you - in America.
Simple. Carrot and stick, except as Trump learned, Russians don’t trust nir want carrot, only believe in stick.
Give them the full shaft.
“They have been invaded countless times, and always prevailed.”
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Yu mean like they did against the Mongols? Or the Germans in WW1?
Military Summary Channel
https://youtu.be/dZJC-TdSFi4
Ukies decided to give major amounts of land to achieve Victory.
Shuddup and take your constipation meds, blathering old fool. You add nothing to the conversation.
“I’ll stick with Patton’s assessment, thank you:”
So we have to nuke them, I guess. You realize we’ll then lose DC and other major US cities.
Hmmm...I see your point. BOMBS AWAY!!!
NO, just, you are delusional, as you always have been.
You guess wrong.
Why is it every Putler supporter here rushes to threaten WWIII?
My gosh, you all sound like Medvedev - prolly just as drunk, too.
Russia has always been a malignant force and a nightmare to deal with. They do not deserve excuses and soft treatment disguised as “understanding.” They need to be dealt with from a position of strength without any illusions that they are a normal country or normal people.
You still WILL NOT get World War 3, so Russia will get Ukraine. Deal with it, Ukraine could have been 90% independent...but not anymore!
Author starts immediately lying "U.S. political elites promised"
There is ONLY ONE treaty in regards to NATO expansion. It is called the "Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany". "No foreign armed forces, nuclear weapons, or the carriers for nuclear weapons would be stationed or deployed in six states (the area of Berlin and the former East Germany), making them a permanent Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone".
There is NO OTHER TREATY that bans eastward expansion of NATO.
Statements said in negotiations, which are NOT part of a treaty are just that, negotiations.
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