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Would you trust NATO?

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Would you trust NATO? To do what? Not invade Russia? Of course. And so did Putin himself! If Putin really believed that NATO was itching for a war against Russia, they wouldn't have let the lack of Ukraine being a member of NATO stop them. They would have intervened militarily immediately as soon as Russia invaded Ukraine. Obviously, that didn't happen, and Putin knew it wouldn't.

Plus, there is the whole issue of Russia being a nuclear power. Nobody with an ounce of common believed that NATO members - most of which had made massive military cutbacks and barely have any offensive capability anyway - were suddenly going to roll east to invade a nuclear-armed Russia to conquer Moscow.

It's absolutely absurd, and any remotely honest person not looking to make excuses for Putin knows it.