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| Russia demands NATO leave eastern Europe, limit missile deployment |
| 2021-12-18 |
 [DW] Russia has released a series of security demands to NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... , including a veto on the alliance's expansion. It is calling for an immediate dialogue, but NATO members aren't likely to acquiesce to Moscow's wish list. Russia on Friday released a series of demands to the United States and NATO if it is to restore relations. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Prob should invite NATO in. That would stun and overwhelm all the players. Likely take 10 years of planning to engage. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-12-18 09:04 |
| #2 We lied to the Russians. We humiliated Gorbachev and then Yeltsin, and plunged the Russian public into ten years of misery and chaos as their country was stolen from them by a kakocracy of bandits (sound familiar, mah fellow Americans?) We should have the decency and good sense to grab this proposal and run with it. NATO is a useless burden for us and a drag on resources that ought to be deployed to the Pacific and to our southern border. Ukraine should be a neutral and demilitarized border country as Austria or Finland were (provided that the Russian-speaking parts get real autonomy and independence from Kyiv). |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-12-18 05:17 |
| #1 And why not? The Russians dissolved the Warsaw Pact and withdrew their troops just like they promised. There is no way that admitting Ukraine to NATO is a good idea. It is literally a provocation to war. Who would like to have a big shooting war with a nuclear power? When the generals in charge are the same geniuses who couldn't beat Afghanistan even with $2 trillion and twenty years to get the job done? How much will this new war cost? |
| Posted by: Clulet Splat5443 2021-12-18 00:48 |