Quote from: suchmoon on Today at 03:05:22 PM

Quote from: Waradlain on Today at 08:54:41 AM

Remembering how the EUput pressure on Lithuania during the conflict with China, I have a damn doubt they support their ally in the conflict with Russia. In the place of Lithuania, I wont count on anything from the EU other than requests/threats to cede to Russia.

Lithuania is in NATO, so it's unlikely to cede anything tangible. If the Baltic states hadn't joined NATO I'm sure Putin would have invaded them first and not Georgia or Ukraine.

Economically there is also not much to lose. Trade with Russia is under massive sanctions for decades to come.

If NATO-style militarizing of the former Soviet countries wasn't happening, Putin, seeing what a mess the USSR was in the past, would try to re-conquer those countries with economy rather than the military.

The USSR didn't work. People don't like being enslaved and they rebel. But treat them fairly with good trade, and they will become your allies voluntarily.

What is happening all over the NATO countries is, the Communistic ideals have won in the US Government. How do we know? NATO is built on the idea of military conquest. All Russia was looking for was free trade until the US and NATO pushed them into military action to protect themselves.

How do we know this? NATO is military, right? Where is NATO located? In countries around Russia. Do we see a Russian form of NATO in Mexico or Canada or Central America (even though some of these countries are a bit Communistic)? NO! The aggression is NATO and the US, not Russia.

What does this mean? It means that Russia is totally justified in her actions.

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