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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Feb 27, 2022, 08:31 PM Feb 2022

Putin's fears of a unified, stronger Europe are fast becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy

Russian President Vladimir Putin's brazen and unprovoked assault on Ukraine is fast turning his fears of a more resolute Europe, and potentially expanded NATO alliance, into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

NATO has come together behind stiff economic sanctions against Moscow. Finland and Sweden, after decades of neutrality, have signaled a new interest in joining the alliance while more autocratic members of the defense pact have excoriated Moscow.

And in an effort to shore up Ukraine's defenses, the European Union for the first time will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday.

In short order, Europe's leading powers have shifted into a position of heightened defensiveness toward Russia.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putins-fears-of-a-unified-stronger-europe-are-fast-becoming-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy/ar-AAUnPN1

Too bad Pooty Poot.

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Putin's fears of a unified, stronger Europe are fast becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 OP
Of course, the UK played into Putin's hands stollen Feb 2022 #1
Putin will reap the whirlwind for his monumentally stupid invasion. sop Feb 2022 #2
I want to see a federal Europe. roamer65 Feb 2022 #3

sop

(10,177 posts)
2. Putin will reap the whirlwind for his monumentally stupid invasion.
Sun Feb 27, 2022, 08:37 PM
Feb 2022

He's done, finshed, relegated to the ash heap of history. Stick a fork in him.

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