• Lad@reddthat.com
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      Russia can’t even conquer a quarter of Ukraine. No chance they’re going to invade Sweden, a country they don’t even share a border with. Is Canada afraid of being invaded by Russia? Is France? Is the UK?

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          I agree, the USSR assumed too much good faith on the part of NATO. Millions of casualties from economic devastation later, nationalist wars are still breaking out between former soviet states, and Nazism is on the rise.

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              It literally doesn’t matter who is invading who, it wouldn’t have happened without the western backed coup of soviet democracy.

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            Notice you don’t actually address appeasement doesn’t work?

            But as for military defence alliance (notice how you tried to misportray that?): Points to cold war.

            Something tells me you’re a Putin apologist.

            You should listen to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. WW1 was interesting.

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              Notice you don’t actually address appeasement doesn’t work?

              Notice that I pointed out that your solution is something else that doesn’t work?

              (notice how you tried to misportray that?)

              Oh fuck off with the smug smarmy shit nobody’s impressed.

              Something tells me you’re a Putin apologist.

              Putin has justified half of what he’s done by playing the victim and whining about NATO expansion. He wants this, and you want him to have it.

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                  you avoid appeasement doesn’t work again as seen by Hitler and WW2

                  The fuck kind of sentence is that? I’m not even sure what you’re trying to to say. You’re awfully arrogant for a guy who can’t speak the language he’s arguing in.

                  Look man, idk why you insist our only options are appeasement or provocation. Each of those led to a world war. And that’s about all I’m going to say, because you’re rambling incoherently at this point and it hurts my head to read it.

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                    Lmao and you attack again. And try to suggest that Nato defence alliance (see why it was important that I corrected you the first time?) is provocation lmao. And you attack more. Ok really I’m out this time. Obvious troll is obvious.

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            Also funny how this “appeasement never works” fanaticism never applies to NATO and it’s members

            Yeah, funny how Russia, China and friends haven’t sanctioned the US and other countries. They have the full right to do that instead of continuing to appease them.

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          Who says anything about appeasement? That’s your words, not mine. Besides, Russia is already being appeased by NATO not letting Ukraine join.

          Why don’t NATO stop being cowards and admit Ukraine immediately? If they’re serious about “defending Europe and democracy”.

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          There are other things to learn in history too, such as some countries, like Russia, simply lacking resources to fight wars this big. As the other commenter said, they can’t get past Ukraine.

          Hitler comparison is really out of place here. It’s more similar to some of the wars in Africa and Latin America.

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        Russia can’t conquer even a quarter of Ukraine, and they still invaded Ukraine. Sweden and Finland know that Russia can’t conquer them, and that knowledge has made them stay neutral in the past. But Russia has just shown with Ukraine that they might try anyway just because, and it’s a huge pain in the ass for Ukraine and for everybody else in Europe too. So it’s only natural that Sweden and Finland would like to avoid even being tried to be conquered by Russia.

        And like we can see, the Russian invasion of Ukraine also impacts France, the UK, and Canada. It’s not that these countries have decided to brainlessly follow the US. They want to support other countries who are at more risk of being invaded by Russia because countries being invaded by Russia is a huge pain in the ass for everybody in the region, not just the country being invaded. So their foreign policy goals simply happen to line up with the US goals.

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        Russia’s inability to conquer any of its neighbors is irrelevant. The possibility of them even attempting is unacceptable if you share a border with Russia. Sure, maybe Putin can’t hope to depose your government, but the destruction and deaths before his failure are still a horrifying reality that’ll take years, possibly decades, to recover from.

        As for why Sweden felt the need to join, despite not having a single meter of border with Russia, it’s because Finland felt the need to join. The two countries are tightly bound and do not want to end up on the opposite sides of a war. Now they’re much less likely to.

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        Lol what a braindead take, I’m sure when this is all over Ukraine will be like “oh, well looks like we didn’t need to be part of NATO after all, we did just fine on our own”