(September 27, 2022 at 4:50 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(September 27, 2022 at 2:53 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I don't know. Why did Putin invade Ukraine? Answer: They (Ukraine) wanted to join NATO.It doesn't matter how many times old vlad himself corrects that one, does it. People continue to believe it. Let's imagine a world in which it's even remotely true, though. I guess that means russia gets to tell other countries whether they get to decide to join nato. IDK about you, but if russia was pulling a slow rolling invasion on me, I'd probably want in nato too.
Quote:If that happens someday, what's to prevent NATO from stationing nuclear weapons in Ukraine?? In the early 60s, President Kennedy threatened nuclear war over the Soviets trying to pull a similar trick in Cuba. Do you think that Kennedy was merely joking? Or, was he serious??Do you think that putin was only joking, or serious, the many times he explained that he's engaged in a war of territorial ambition?
Do you think that it was right for President Kennedy to object to then Soviet Union staging nuclear missiles in Cuba? How would (should) the United States react if Putin would do the same next month?
