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bdamomma

(63,950 posts) Sat Jun 6, 2020, 09:45 AM Jun 2020

While We Were Not Watching

this is going on.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/russia-and-turkey-just-escalated-a-war-while-you-werent-watching/?utm_source=push_notifications

Putin is doing his thing when we are distracted with a pandemic and race relations.

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While We Were Not Watching (Original Post) bdamomma Jun 2020 OP

It's territorial imperative - Putin needs warm water ports and Poland has them FakeNoose Jun 2020 #1

FakeNoose

(32,853 posts)

1. It's territorial imperative - Putin needs warm water ports and Poland has them

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Sat Jun 6, 2020, 09:52 AM

Jun 2020

Same thing with Ukraine - they've got ports on the Black Sea and Putin must have them at any cost. How is Pootie going to ship his oil out of Russia if his ports are frozen for 4 months of the year?

The USA cannot police the entire world, we already know that. If Poland wants to shake hands with the devil, who are we to say they can't? We're no angels either.

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