• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    The NATO is a defense agreement. Of course, Russia won’t be a fan of everyone else forming an alliance, but they wouldn’t need to care either, if they don’t plan to invade anyone.
    And their immediate neighbors certainly wouldn’t either be joining a defense agreement with foreign forces rather than with Russia, if they felt like they could trust Russia, let alone need defense against Russia.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      Ah yes it’s just an innocent defensive alliance that has been relentlessly expanding and invading countries for the past 30 years.

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      I responded to this in another comment but simply put: NATO isn’t a defensive alliance and it never was. That’s a paper-thin lie that isn’t supported by their history whatsoever. If NATO were to expand to Ukraine, they would threaten Russia militarily, if not outright coup them.

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      Ukraine is a nazi-influenced country, of course it would be scared of russia. Russia, with its many faults, still fucking hates nazis. NATO is also not a defense alliance, it is an imperialist alliance made to kill communism, and expand the power of its leader, the United States.

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        Russia, with its many faults, still fucking hates nazis.

        If that’s true, why are they in so many ways nazis themselves? Some Sun Tzu thing perhaps? “To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.”

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          name one nazi battalion in russia with police authority. One. Name a single openly nazi official in the entirety of the russian parliament. Can you even properly spout your own propaganda?

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            name one nazi battalion in russia with police authority.

            Why did you have to specify “with police authority”? Did you invent that specifically so that I couldn’t say “Wagner Group”?

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        3 years ago

        The mafia does extractive protection agreements, not mutual defense protection agreements.