• Skua
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    145 months ago

    No, demanding your neighbours all remain weak enough for you to continue bullying is not perfectly reasonable at all

      • Skua
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        115 months ago

        All of the countries near Russia that joined NATO did so because they already have their biggest aggressor on their doorsteps.

          • Skua
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            105 months ago

            If buying stuff from the other side is your yardstick, NATO clearly wasn’t a threat to Russia. Germany, Italy, France, and America were all some of Russia’s largest import sources in 2021.

            • @umbrella@lemmy.ml
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              -75 months ago

              which all sounds really dumb if russia was that big of an aggressor in the first place. either that or you know, they werent.

              • wildncrazyguy
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                75 months ago

                Yep, those Russian tanks that crossed into Ukrainian sovereign land were tanks of peace.

                • Gamma
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                  Those paratroopers were there to peacefully take the airport too