25th Feb 2022:
This are all Forwards and I did not pen them, but makes sense to me.
Many Aussie friends share this view but not those living in USA which is understandable.
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NATO is for maintaining Peace not Create Wars 👇👇👇👇
Sad that Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has left Ukraine for the safety of Munich, Germany. As far as I know, he's still there, urging his people to fight to the death from a safe place.
Had NATO declared that it would never absorb Ukraine and make it a neutral buffer state, the Russian invasion would never have occurred.
By moving U.S. and Canadian trainers onto Ukrainian soil, and by arming them with advanced anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, we recklessly posed an existential threat to Russia. President Putin reacted much like JFK did during the Cuban missile crisis.
Ukraine cannot win. We are arming them and urging them to fight and die with no possibility of success. It's so easy for US politicians to bluster and bully while Ukrainians pay the bloody price.
The puppet of Arms, Pharma, Oil lobby Biden had provoked Putin who doesn't take threats
Now The NATO nations will buy more US arms, Oil has rocketed and Pharma has its own run
Russia will lose nothing, it will emerge more powerful but the US decay is assured.
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Another Biden/Blinken Blunder
By Percy AllanFeb 25, 2022
Biden and Blinken will now notch up their second humiliating defeat following the US rout in Afghanistan. Ukraine could have become a Finland. (Image: Flickr / U.S. Indo-Pacific Command)
Biden and Blinken (an appropriate surname) will now notch up their second humiliating defeat following the US rout in Afghanistan.
As I expected, Russia has invaded Ukraine because both Ukraine and the West refused to preclude its membership of NATO.
This has been a festering security issue for Russia since Ukraine applied for NATO membership in 2008 and George Bush Jnr supported its request.
Since Ukraine is a bulwark between Russia and NATO Europe, its refusal to commit to being a neutral country like Finland, Sweden, Ireland, Austria, and Cyprus (each of whom belong to the EU, but not NATO) looks now to have consigned it to being a client state of Russia like Belarus.
The US and NATO refused to commit to defending Ukraine yet let the issue of NATO membership fester for 14 years.
Biden and Blinken (an appropriate surname) will now notch up their second humiliating defeat following the US rout in Afghanistan.
As I expected, Russia has invaded Ukraine because both Ukraine and the West refused to preclude its membership of NATO.
This has been a festering security issue for Russia since Ukraine applied for NATO membership in 2008 and George Bush Jnr supported its request.
Since Ukraine is a bulwark between Russia and NATO Europe, its refusal to commit to being a neutral country like Finland, Sweden, Ireland, Austria, and Cyprus (each of whom belong to the EU, but not NATO) looks now to have consigned it to being a client state of Russia like Belarus.
The US and NATO refused to commit to defending Ukraine yet let the issue of NATO membership fester for 14 years.
Also, Ukraine never gave the two eastern provinces (parts of which broke away) the self-governing autonomy they were promised in the Minsk Agreements.
Biden and Blinken (an appropriate surname) will now notch up their second humiliating defeat following the US rout in Afghanistan. Ukraine could have become a Finland, but now is likely to end up being subjugated, or at least that half of it east of the Dnieper River.
All very sad and avoidable if Russia’s fundamental grievance over NATO expanding to its border had been addressed. Putin’s aspiration for Ukraine re-joining Mother Russia is for domestic consumption, not its prime concern which was always security related.
Thomas Friedman in a New York Times article titled “US not blameless in Putin’s war” quotes George Keenan, the architect of America’s successful containment of the Soviet Union, telling him that NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe (while refusing Russian membership) was a mistake because it provoked a post-communist Russia to feel besieged. Also, it amounted to overreach as NATO does not have the resources nor the intention to protect these states.
When Cuba wanted to join the Warsaw Pact 60 years ago, America attempted an invasion (Bay of Pigs) and then threatened Russia with WWIII if it did not withdraw its missiles and armed forces.
Now Russia is doing the same over Ukraine joining NATO, but Biden unlike Khrushchev did not heed the warning.
Biden and Blinken (an appropriate surname) will now notch up their second humiliating defeat following the US rout in Afghanistan. Ukraine could have become a Finland, but now is likely to end up being subjugated, or at least that half of it east of the Dnieper River.
All very sad and avoidable if Russia’s fundamental grievance over NATO expanding to its border had been addressed. Putin’s aspiration for Ukraine re-joining Mother Russia is for domestic consumption, not its prime concern which was always security related.
Thomas Friedman in a New York Times article titled “US not blameless in Putin’s war” quotes George Keenan, the architect of America’s successful containment of the Soviet Union, telling him that NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe (while refusing Russian membership) was a mistake because it provoked a post-communist Russia to feel besieged. Also, it amounted to overreach as NATO does not have the resources nor the intention to protect these states.
When Cuba wanted to join the Warsaw Pact 60 years ago, America attempted an invasion (Bay of Pigs) and then threatened Russia with WWIII if it did not withdraw its missiles and armed forces.
Now Russia is doing the same over Ukraine joining NATO, but Biden unlike Khrushchev did not heed the warning.
The Democrats will pay a big electoral price on insisting Ukraine’s right to join NATO when they never had the intention of enforcing it.
Sanctions are a bad joke, Russia has huge foreign exchange reserves, a big budget surplus and can get anything it needs from or through China. The only thing that might move Putin is the seizure of properties that Russian oligarchs own in London.
I’m starting to warm to Donald Trump returning to the White House because he withdrew from foreign wars rather than nurturing them. He of course would further divide and diminish America, but that might distract it from more empty bluster in foreign affairs.
Sanctions are a bad joke, Russia has huge foreign exchange reserves, a big budget surplus and can get anything it needs from or through China. The only thing that might move Putin is the seizure of properties that Russian oligarchs own in London.
I’m starting to warm to Donald Trump returning to the White House because he withdrew from foreign wars rather than nurturing them. He of course would further divide and diminish America, but that might distract it from more empty bluster in foreign affairs.
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Let's Hope Biden and Putin just throw words at each other God Forbid they decide to use their Nuclear arsenal. The world needs to forget about who is right and who is wrong and to understand the aftermath of a nuclear warfare. Watch this video carefully. Hope Biden, Kamala Harris and Boris Jhonson see this video too and Save the World 👇👇👇👇👇👇
Aftermath of Nuclear Warfare
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Putin : "How would America React to Russian Missile Placed on its borders?"
Like it or not they are very valid questions by Putin
Very nice explanation 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻.Respect for Putin 🇷🇺
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A Bit of Applied Comedy
NATO is a Real Comedy of Errors.
Do we need a Cold War in 2022 ?
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Whose side is India on in this Ukraine War ?
The Answer my Friend is Blowing in the Wind
The answer is Blowing in the Wind
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Now don't ask me who or what Weibo Netizens are
as I am clueless just like you
Weibo netizens posted this explanation of the relationship between Russia, Ukraine, the United States, etc. with a family ethics drama. The narrative below will explain the situation but with a bit of family drama thrown in.
Google translate:
I'm sure everyone is confused. If the news version of Russia vs Ukraine is too complicated, it is recommended to read the commentary of the novel version. See translation
More than 20 years ago, Ukraine divorced her ex-husband (Russia), and several children belonged to her.
The ex-husband was also very accommodating to her and left her a lot of family property. After that, the ex-husband also paid off more than 200 billion debts for her.
After getting rid of her ex-husband, Ukraine started flirting and flirting with the village bully (USA) and a group of prostitutes (Western states) until she was completely in their arms. That's still okay, (but) she completely listened to the village tyrant, and hooked up to attack her ex-husband.
The ex-husband was very angry and insisted on returning a child: Crimea.
Ukraine began to hold grudges and dreams. She wanted to marry into the NATO family and squeeze her ex-husband.
The village bully didn't want to marry her. He just wanted to use her to bully her ex-husband. With every effort, the two children were forced to cry and look for their father.
The village bully was always on the sidelines, just sending some expired items (ammunition) from time to time.
Ukraine thought she had someone to support her, and was even more presumptuous towards her ex-husband.
The ex-husband couldn't bear it anymore, and looked at the poor children, and rushed over with the guy to ask the two children to go back, so they started fighting.
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( If you don't find it funny don't laugh OK)
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