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2021-12-27 Europe

January 12 proposed as date for NATO-Russian Federation meeting

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Posted by badanov 2021-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 No point talking with NATO or the Ukrainians - just the US. If they don’t sign off on an agreement then it doesn’t matter what the other parties say

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Omerelet5036 2021-12-27 12:03|| 2021-12-27 12:03|| Front Page Top

#2 He's just bluffing. His real goal is to force the US to stop expanding NATO. That's an easy concession for us to make: at this point expanding NATO brings us nothing but grief. Conceding something that's worth nothing to you and everything to your adversary is a smart negotiating strategy.

We could have had Russia as a bulwark against Islamist terror and a partner that along with India and Japan would keep China off balance and in check.

Instead, thanks to Cheney-W-McCain's stupid fantasies of creating Jeffersonian democracy everywhere from Cairo to Baghdad and Damascus to Kabul and the Caucasus, we ended up with trillion-dollar albatrosses and democracy in none of those nations.

Under Soetoro and his twin idiots McFaul and his boss Hillary, we added an albatross in yet another shithole, Ukraine. And now under Brandon, our list of humiliating defeats includes Afghanistan.

All when Russia could have been what it was in 2201-2003, a willing partner offering us significant military cooperation, including forward bases in Central Asia, in our mutual conflict with Islamic terror.

All because of our retarded obsession with democracy promotion abroad -- while our own democratic institutions at home are now reeling and under assault by our own shitty little authoritarians and corrupt oligarchs.

We Are Ruled By Obsessed Morons

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-27 13:30|| 2021-12-27 13:30|| Front Page Top

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