Message from @Gelnak
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WW1 was caused by SECRET alliances. People would have reconsidered going to war if they knew what the fuck they were getting into.
What's stopping a nation from attacking another and then invoking article 5 when a retaliatory strike comes?
@King Canuck
>tell them about the Leftist who killed people
we wre over that earlier
Connor Betts, I think?
we agreed it was a moot point cause his ideology didn't make him shoot people
🤔
he just seemed to be a violent boi
That's true of the majority of shooters iirc
@King Canuck What's their opinion on the El Paso shooter?
"But he wasnt a real Leftist"
They fucked Russia by expanding
Russia is retaliating
Nothing controversial about that
Im not saying that applying pressure to russia is fair, or that its wrong for russia to push back
@Weez - Maybe Russia should ask why all of their former colonies are so eager to join the Americans.
Russia has corrupt political systems built into it that seek to ever expand way outside their remit
ones that are not commiserate with western values in the slightest
The Soviet Union used to be massive, and most of those former Soviet satellite states practically BEGGED to join NATO. Even though they're former Warsaw Pact states.
my dude
if russia doesnt want to expand
why would they care if someone stopped them from expanding
@Arthur Grayborn They can beg all they like. Inviting them added fuel to the fire.
That's all I'm saying
Inviting them and allowing them in made the issue worse.
It's called oppression and colonialism, @Weez. Everyone the Russians oppressed is looking for an ally to make sure it doesn't happen again.
People who couldn't get the alliance ended up suffering exactly what they feared.
Russian boots on their soil, Russian government pushing them around at gunpoint.
@Arthur Grayborn Good for them. Let them make their own pact.
Weez either you think russia wants to expand, or you think that nato doesnt affect them
pick one
Russia is expanding as a result of NATO expansion.
hahahaha
LOL. No it's not.
"i only rob banks because they are hiding money from me"
NATO is expanding because people are afraid of Russia doing what they did under the Soviet Union - colonizing them and turning them into a quasi-slave-state again.
NATO is expanding because of American imperialism.