Putin told Merkel he could crush Ukraine's army and take Kyiv if he wanted

*do it*

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>Letting Russia expand its borders
Are you lot joking or just terminally retarded? Im assuming you remember the Cold War?

TL;DR the last thing we want at all and ever is for Russia to start rebuilding her old sphere of influence.

I wouldn't let them do it just on the grounds that they are infringing on another Nation's sovereignty and that's not ok

Yall are missing the part about the UKEs provoking them

Like they were in Russian waters

*armoured tugboats*

Eh, Russia does shit like that all the time

Just the other year they tried to fly bombers of England *yet again*

we do the same thing

My point is that they should be less butthurt. The problem is that they want Ukraine and so are using every little thing possible as an excuse to provoke things.

gee sure would be nice if the EU had an army to tell russia to fuck off

I don't really see a need for US to get involved

@Blood Rose if Russia was allowed to have its natural sphere of influence instead of being treated like a pariah then there'd be less autism

When their "Natural Sphere of influence" includes countries that want to be their own state that's an issue

reinstate the kievan rus

What in the fuck is a natural sphere of influence lmao

How where they in russian water when the krim island actuly belongs to ukrain and not russia?

They aren't. Russia is trying to start shit in international waters.

Also tf they made the ukranian sailors say it wais their fault on tv when you can clearly understand they are reading from a script

Probably had a gun to their heads off screen

Russia is shitting all over international law and about eight different treaties right now.

It's fucking galling, but it's what we get for looking the other way when they invaded Georgia, Ukraine, and novichok'd people in britbongistan

Inb4 its actuly cia that is behind it all

There was a spook somewhere on one of the boats

@Carol >Russia just wants to have its sphere of influence
>In international waters
>And by annexing sovereign countries
>Using force and coercion and threats
🤔

I've heard the same argument about China

that's their mentality

China is getting away with it though

It's already too late. They made their islands.

Both have been pushing the edges uncontested for years now.

The U.S has only just begun surveillance. Any country but the U.S they warn to turn back via lethal threats immediately

should drop a few more cranes on their ships

There should have been a carrier group in the black sea as soon as they worked out where the novichok came from.

@FireRising

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Smh, can't even enjoy Vanilla WoW without some Russian retard