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Effete Snob

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19. WTF?

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #13)

Thu Feb 10, 2022, 12:48 PM

Feb 2022

I'd like to understand this.

If the people of Ukraine, through their democratically-elected representatives, want to join an international alliance - be it NATO, the EU, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, or whatever else...

Then it is your view that because the US has historically done bad things, that Ukraine cannot do what other democratic countries in the region have done?

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The Media's Neo-McCarthyism on Russia Is Getting Worse [View all] Uncle Joe Feb 2022 OP

Ukraine rso Feb 2022 #1

100% agree. OnDoutside Feb 2022 #6

Putin does not want to invade Ukraine. The cost is too high. marie999 Feb 2022 #8

Ukraine rso Feb 2022 #9

Why is it neo-McCarthyism? TheRealNorth Feb 2022 #2

Those Fellas Are Comedic Genii, Sir, They'll Put the Onion Out Of Business The Magistrate Feb 2022 #3

If NATO would put it in writing that Ukraine cannot become a member of NATO, marie999 Feb 2022 #4

How about Russia hands back stolen Crimea first as a gesture of goodwill ? OnDoutside Feb 2022 #5

Not going to happen. He has already proved no other nation cares about Crimea. marie999 Feb 2022 #7

So, your solution is to give in to him ? And what happens when he OnDoutside Feb 2022 #14

Russia will not invade Ukraine as long as it isn't about to join NATO. marie999 Feb 2022 #16

so you trust Putin RussBLib Feb 2022 #17

Of course not. marie999 Feb 2022 #18

Ukraine rso Feb 2022 #11

Well said. OnDoutside Feb 2022 #15

So Ukraine cannot decide what they want to do Effete Snob Feb 2022 #12

That's the moral cost for our own support of coups, Uncle Joe Feb 2022 #13

WTF? Effete Snob Feb 2022 #19

Ukraine has the fundamental right to democracy and be their own nation, they don't Uncle Joe Feb 2022 #20

No sale /nt Effete Snob Feb 2022 #10