a buffer for Putin

Putin says Russia needs a buffer, to keep invaders from the west coming and slaughtering Russians.



How doe he get his buffer ? By slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians.

Putin says Russia needs a buffer, to keep invaders from the west coming and slaughtering Russians.



How doe he get his buffer ? By slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians. Originally Posted by VitaMan

Yes.

This is the fault of 30 years of morons in the state department talking up expanding NATO. There was never a reason to expand it.

There are plenty of analysts on record predicting exactly what has happened because of our stupid ass foreign policy.

Add in the corruption of the democrat party using Ukraine to launder money and we are reaping what we have sown.

... But no worrys there, Yanks... Your American Military is WOKE.
General Milley told us so. ....

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Yes.

This is the fault of 30 years of morons in the state department talking up expanding NATO. There was never a reason to expand it.

There are plenty of analysts on record predicting exactly what has happened because of our stupid ass foreign policy.

Add in the corruption of the democrat party using Ukraine to launder money and we are reaping what we have sown. Originally Posted by texassapper

you could make a case farther back than 30 years. what you refer to is the fall of the USSR which essentially invalidated NATO's entire purpose. if the cold war post WWII hadn't existed neither would NATO. maybe we should have listened to General Patton and kicked Russia's ass back to Russia when we had the chance and yes that includes re-purposing the German army to do it.


Truman had the balls to order two atomic strikes on Japan to force them into surrender. he didn't have the balls to stand up to Stalin and tell him "pull back to Russia or we nuke Moscow".


Eisenhower said in the late 1940's when he was named Supreme NATO Commander that if US troops were still in Europe in 10 years the whole concept of NATO would have been a failure. he was not wrong. and yet here we are 70 years later, 30 years past the end of the very threat NATO was created for, to prevent further expansion into western Europe by the USSR.

Not exactly. NATO was created so smaller countries wouldn't be swallowed up by bigger countries.

Not exactly. NATO was created so smaller countries wouldn't be swallowed up by bigger countries. Originally Posted by VitaMan

name the larger country that was a clear threat to do that?


USSR

Take something to calm you down. You get so worked up.

Take something to calm you down. You get so worked up. Originally Posted by VitaMan

if you say so ValuelessMan

if you say so ValuelessMan Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

ah.. so now he's a non-valued user!