Ukrainian War Developments

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FairAndUnbiased

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Russia invades Ukraine and threatens nuclear war if the West intervenes. Who's blackmailing who?
Allowing UKR into NATO = UKR can poke RUS all it wants and retaliation means Article 5.

Too far fetched? What's with UKR army shelling Donbas then?? If UKR joins NATO what stops it from keeping on shelling Donbas from its own territory and say to RUS, if you protect Donbas, we invoke Article 5?

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yxgemini

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I made a very simple and uncontroversial statement: you can't blackmail Russia over its bordering states. And all these people are trying to say that yes, you can blackmail Russia, they'll back down... this is very dangerous to think.
Very dangerous only if the "thinker" has a finger on the Red Button. In the case of this war, it is Putin who made veiled threats of such kind. Note the US, as fanantic as its rhetoric is, always tone it down in a dissmissive way when the word nuke is mentioned. It is both an posture of strength as well as more things to lose.
And yes, radioactive saliva is very dangerous to this thread.
 

lucretius

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Guess what happens when you keep throwing firecrackers at the guy's front lawn?

When he comes out with a 12-gauge and tells you to get off his lawn but you don't listen and stick roman candles in it, guess what happens?

Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania are not "Putins Lawn"

Russia is "Putins Lawn"
 
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