Re: NATO nonsense
Reply #312 –
Ukraine has prepared for war now for 8 years, and far more successfully at that than Russia.
Following the annexation of Crimea... Do you fault Ukraine for preparing for the inevitable? And, perhaps, Putin's pursuit of designs on Ukrainian territories are more the result of his accurate assessment of his nation's conventional military's shortcomings — making his timing sort of a forced move?
What a God-awful mess! (I wonder how good a chess player Putin is...)
The U.S.S.R. was never particularly good at abiding by treaties... (Remember Reagan's "Trust, but verify"?) And the U.S. foreign policy has been unmoored since Congress absolved itself of its responsibility to declare war, or not. Certainly since the War Powers Act, administrations have repeatedly foregone the requirement to submit consequential treaties to Congress for ratification...
Indeed, Ukraine was "betrayed" — but is nuclear conflagration the only way to restore our honor?
Or can Putin somehow be placated?
“The Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation, for purposes of trust-building and creating conditions for holding talks further, and achieving the final goal of agreeing and signing a peace treaty, made a decision to radically decrease the military activities in the directions of Kyiv and Chernihiv,” Alexander Fomin, Russia’s deputy minister of defense, told reporters in Turkey after the two sides met.
Chernigov, in northern Ukraine, sits about 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Kyiv.
Russian officials will provide more details about the reduction after the delegation returns to Moscow, Fomin said.