re: Well there it is... Blinken: Ukraine will become NATO member

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You have this animosity towards Russia and feel they should be destroyed it seems.

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No, I have a strong feeling (backed up by decades of proof) that USSR weapons' have propped up some terrible dictators across the world the last few decades. The more of those weapons that are trashed in Ukraine and don't make it into conflicts against our allies like Israel the better.

I hope one day the Russian people can pivot back to a democracy and overthrow their Soviet sensibilities, but between now and then I want them as disarmed as possible just in case whoever come after Putin is crazier than him.

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Do you seriously think they have no right to defend?

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The goal of this war wasn't to defend Russia from NATO, but to gain a land bridge to Crimea so Russia has full access to the Black Sea. As a neocon I do think might makes right to a certain point, but you frick around and you find out and Russia is finding out that our Gulf War era shite curbstops their best weaponry.

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Or to put it another way, if Russia was installing its puppet and setting up bases in Mexico, do you think we should sit back and take it up the arse?

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If the roles were switched I would think that Russia would be happy to fund a proxy war in Mexico to clean out US arms. But luckily our MIC stayed at a high level after the Cold War (unlike Russia's MIC who hasn't seen many innovations since the wall fell) so it is us who get to play the game of chess not them.