(02-27-2022, 11:07 AM)Caldrac Wrote: Is it a disaster for Putin though? Or is that what the media wants us to think and feel? Looking from his view. NATO wants Ukraine. Western culture, western rule and western military power are inching closer and closer to the East.

How many bases on the globe does Russia have in comparison to our Government and NATO? It's an ugly truth that many Americans don't want to face and don't want to hear. We're the big bad wolves here. And those big bad wolves are backed by big bad crooks in our own Government.

You can't say that's propaganda when you have lefties and righties going at it non stop now in our own Country. I wonder how we would feel if the East had all the power that we have and they were inching closer and closer to us and forcing us into a corner.

This feels more like a publicity stunt by the media and it feels like Putin is getting desperate in fear of losing control. China is in the same position. Join or die. Seems pretty obvious. Politics has not changed one bit. It's old rich men talking. And young men dying.

Doesn't mean Putin's right. Doesn't mean he's wrong though neither.



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Who cares how many bases we have? We have these bases, because we have built relations with our allies over the years and they feel safer with our military presence. They feel this way, because of imperialistic, corrupt, dictators like Putin, who might "get a wild hair up his butt" and decide to invade their country. Maybe if leaders like Putin lightened up and actually stopped committing human rights violations, there wouldn't have to be a NATO. 

Young men are dying, because men like Putin want total control over those that they rule. They want dissenters imprisoned and executed and they want unquestioned power. He didn't like that a country which was once part of the Soviet Union was about to align itself with the west in the name of freedom. He knew any influence he would have over Ukraine in the future would never happen if they joined NATO. It's all about power and ego. This is what happens when you allow your country to fall into the hands of a narcissistic, mob boss with deep, deep ties to the KGB. 

It TOTALLY means Putin is wrong. Even questioning this is questioning freedom and pretty much everything America was founded on. Putin is no different than Hitler.

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