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Karnage | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Without any securities guarantees they’ll just be sitting ducks for another run at some more lands down the road 🤷‍♂️
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Magister Michael Dilger M.Sc. | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Fair point. Add in some security guarantees for Ukraine of some sort... maybe Russian assets held in Western institutions that can be confiscated if... oh wait, that's already happened.  Doesn't seem to work.
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Karnage | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 My point is it’s NATO or nothing for Ukraine. Putin sort of screwed himself with that genius move…
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Karnage | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 “Ukraine must not join NATO! I’ll go ahead and attack to ensure they have no choice but to join” 


What a brilliant guy… 🤦‍♂️
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Magister Michael Dilger M.Sc. | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Putin's thinking was that NATO couldn't admit Ukraine if Ukraine was at war with Russia because that would immediately put NATO at war with Russia. And so by attacking Ukraine they prevented Ukraine from joining NATO.  I'm sure Putin did not expect as much Western backing as Ukraine has gotten.  But even with that Western backing, Ukraine is still not in NATO and NATO is still not at direct war with Russia.  So we don't have a decisive answer as to whether Putin's strategy "screwed himself" or not, we have to wait for the future to show us who is the better strategist, Vladimir Putin or karnage.
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Karnage | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I’m no strategist 😂
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Magister Michael Dilger M.Sc. | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Ah man!  I wanted to get an autographed copy of your next book!