sammysmiles:
When did Putin offered to join NATO and was rejected?

Do your research. I won't do it for you - between 2000 and 2003 as a guide. Peace

alabo1:


Do your research. I won't do it for you - between 2000 and 2003 as a guide. Peace

Putin literally said we are not standing in line with a lot of countries that don't matter.... He refused to follow the normal process of joining Nato. Putin expected Nato to invite Russia then, but he was told nato doesn't invite countries, countries apply to join.. So I don't know where you got the info that Putin applied and was rejected?

Rugaria:
The Russian military is now less than 20 miles from Kiev the Ukrainian capital as we speak. That is less than 24 hours of fighting! If Ukraine knows they're this miserably hopeless, why didn't they do enough to stave off the invasion? There was no way The United States or NATO would have intervened to fight against a nuclear armed Russia. So what's the point putting your country through this mess? The West continues using these countries as cannon fodders in their senseless proxxy wars with Russia and China.

Thank you.
What kind of a country leaves its border unguarded all this time while Russia was amassing its troops in Belarus?
Imagine Ukraine can't resist Russian tanks rolling into its northern flank for a day?
Such a joke of a nation.
Don't they have helicopter gunships?
The military convoy of Russia is about 10km from Kiev. Why hasn't Ukrainian airforce and army bomb the convoy out of existence?
It is very shameful.
You can't hold back an invasion close to your capital for a week?!
It's unimaginable.
When you are living next to a Bully, you should have some deterrent.
The comedian turned president doesn't seem to know the difference between comedy and reality.

Gospel2Day:


Thank you.
What kind of a country leaves its border unguarded all this time while Russia was amassing its troops in Belarus?
Imagine Ukraine can't resist Russian tanks rolling into its northern flank for a day?
Such a joke of a nation.
Don't they have helicopter gunships?
The military convoy of Russia is about 10km from Kiev. Why hasn't Ukrainian airforce and army bomb the convoy out of existence?
It is very shameful.
You can't hold back an invasion close to your capital for a week?!
It's unimaginable.
When you are living next to a Bully, you should have some deterrent.
The comedian turned president doesn't seem to know the difference between comedy and reality.

My brother you sef check am na.

Zelenskyy's strategy during the Russian military buildup was to calm the Ukrainian populace and assure the international community that Ukraine was not seeking to retaliate.

He initially distanced himself from warnings of an imminent war, while also calling for security guarantees and military support from NATO to "withstand" the threat.

How can someone point a gun at you. Then you pick your phone and start making calls.

He's a real Comedian.

sammysmiles:
Putin literally said we are not standing in line with a lot of countries that don't matter.... He refused to follow the normal process of joining Nato. Putin expected Nato to invite Russia then, but he was told nato doesn't invite countries, countries apply to join.. So I don't know where you got the info that Putin applied and was rejected?

My brother I never said he applied. Read what I wrote again. He offered/showed interest but the West did not agree to his terms. My point is if the West Truly wanted peace they would have accepted and ended the threat to European security once and for all. Considering Russia's Military might and ihe perceived threat that should have been done. However if Russia joins NATO that will also remove NATO's relevance and lead to its eventual collapse because without a threat why should countries pay to be part of the alliance. Peace

FERNANDEZISBACK:

How is NATO a threat to him?
NATO is a defensive organisation that guarantees the integrity of member nations against attack through the medium of mutual support...

He is not defending his country he is invading a sovereign country.. understand that?
You can't defend your country by attacking another for no reason..just like torturing your wife for saying she wanna divorce you..
NATO is still necessary because it protects its members from the “confusion, instability, unpredictability” which are persistent conditions in international affairs. So NATO doesn’t need to be against any specific state or group to continue to have a very important job to do...To prevent any more annexed Crimea’s and Russian occupied Ukraine.
Russia intends to further expand her borders, NATO may deter WW3...
So you gotta understand that..

Explain to them no more... terrorist haz taken over nairaland that's y they some of them love what Putin is doing...las las na em own people go drop am down one day just like they did gadaffi...

cybriz82:



Explain to them no more... terrorist haz taken over nairaland that's y they some of them love what Putin is doing...

Thanks a lot..

Rugaria:


Taiwan has always been Chinese.. Don't let Western propaganda fool you. Taiwan is not Ukraine. Taiwan is Chinese and Ukraine is not Russian. Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao reminds China of the enermous levels the west had to go in order to undermine her when she was weak and poor. China has got a good case to demand the return of Taiwan. The British are still in Falklands and The French controls West Africa and polenesia, yet they're the ones condemning Russia.

Democratic West? Is there anything democratic about the current world order? You live in Africa that has been more or else designated a mininig field, a continent being rapaciously raped by Western multinationals and agencies and you're talking of a democratic world order? What is democratic about Nigerias politics today as is supported by the West? I think most Africans suffer the political equivalent of the Stockholm syndrome in their rabid obeisance to western dictates..

The same China is exploiting the congo. No superpower is saint

Rugaria:


For no reason?
The problem here is that you are giving NATO and the West a free pass. In your mind, they're infallible. You really think the West never saw this crises coming? This crises have been brewing for over a decade. The West knows what they're doing. Russia knows what they are doing too. Russia understands Western manipulations and scheming and are basically trying to upstage them.

You have to understand how NATO works. Once you're a member of NATO, if you're attacked, all members of NATO have a duty to join hands to defend you. It means that the attackers will be facing the military arsenal of the whole of western Europe and others that are members of NATO. NATO is the biggest fighting block as at today and represents the biggest military danger to countries like Russia and China...

So what happens if Ukraine joins NATO and a president of Ukraine starts a sort of war with Russia? NATO will have to do something to defend Ukraine. That means that all of a sudden, Russia will have to fight The USA, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain , Portugal etc. These are some of the most sophisticated militaries in the world. You're going to face them over a minor squabble with your neighbor? Right at your borders! Especially a neighbor that has ethnic Russians as her citizens too?

This is very simple. I don't know why it looks so confusing to some. Russia is trying to get Ukraine within her sphere of influence. That's what you do when you're a super power. The Americans do it, the USSR did it, China is trying to do it. If you leave your flanks open, your competitors will enter an dismantle you. If you doubt this, try to make Mexico a strategic ally of Russia or China, .. The Americans will react even more ferociously than Russia is doing today to that. During the Venezuelan crises, The US did whatever it could to make sure that Russia never had a military post in Venezuela. Yet Venezuela has no border crossings with The United States. How much more a country with land borders with the US..

Nice explanation........My question now is Estonia shares boundary with Russia and are also part of NATO, why is Russia not again Estonia?

So if they have accepted the republics, why have there been fighting non stop for 8 years and democrats threatened them with sanctions and won't let them be in peace?

Putin is not about war but to protect his people's interests and land like any country would do. America's left are the people causing problem in Ukraine and until they leave Ukraine with their criminal soldiers, Russia will stay in Ukraine. Russia is already pursuing them to the capital and everywhere they go.

Pareyz:


Ukraine has acquiesced the exit of separatists republic of Lohan'sk and Donesk. They didn't invade them brutally as Putin is doing to Ukraine.. Putin is a warmonger that needs to be stopped at all cost.

Are there ethnic Russians and pro Russia regions that have declared independence in Estonia? Your question makes no sense.

mbourie:


Nice explanation........My question now is Estonia shares boundary with Russia and are also part of NATO, why is Russia not again Estonia?

ivandragon:



The thing about international politics is that there would always be 'empires', one or two countries who deem themselves are superior to others & seek to impose thier ideologies. If you were a student of international politics, you would know this.

You seem to think the former 'Soviet states' have always belonged to Russia. They are territories conquered by the Red Army. So, what is wrong in Ukraine & other former Soviet States insisting on thier independence?

Taiwan was annexed by China (I think the Qing dynasty) in the 1500s or 1600s, & though they share similar ancestry, they were long independent before China took over the lands.

You talk about rape of by the West, do you think Russia & China are any better? That you choose to swallow the Eastern propaganda is your choice, so your reference to Stockholm syndrome is a reference that is out of context. Regardless of your poor attempts at insults, the fact remains, you are not an 'ideology' on your own. You either follow the dictates of the West & its variants or those of the east & its variants... there are no illusions about that...

A truckload of hollandia yoghurt for you..

FERNANDEZISBACK:

We are having a mature debate no insult..he had something to say so what's your issue with that..
You are either contributing something sensible or just slide off without acting like a petty kid..

Just stop... your analysis is insanity brainless and stupid

kazyhm:


Just stop... your analysis is insanity brainless and stupid

Ok

Rugaria:


For no reason?
The problem here is that you are giving NATO and the West a free pass. In your mind, they're infallible. You really think the West never saw this crises coming? This crises have been brewing for over a decade. The West knows what they're doing. Russia knows what they are doing too. Russia understands Western manipulations and scheming and are basically trying to upstage them.

You have to understand how NATO works. Once you're a member of NATO, if you're attacked, all members of NATO have a duty to join hands to defend you. It means that the attackers will be facing the military arsenal of the whole of western Europe and others that are members of NATO. NATO is the biggest fighting block as at today and represents the biggest military danger to countries like Russia and China...

So what happens if Ukraine joins NATO and a president of Ukraine starts a sort of war with Russia? NATO will have to do something to defend Ukraine. That means that all of a sudden, Russia will have to fight The USA, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain , Portugal etc. These are some of the most sophisticated militaries in the world. You're going to face them over a minor squabble with your neighbor? Right at your borders! Especially a neighbor that has ethnic Russians as her citizens too?

This is very simple. I don't know why it looks so confusing to some. Russia is trying to get Ukraine within her sphere of influence. That's what you do when you're a super power. The Americans do it, the USSR did it, China is trying to do it. If you leave your flanks open, your competitors will enter an dismantle you. If you doubt this, try to make Mexico a strategic ally of Russia or China, .. The Americans will react even more ferociously than Russia is doing today to that. During the Venezuelan crises, The US did whatever it could to make sure that Russia never had a military post in Venezuela. Yet Venezuela has no border crossings with The United States. How much more a country with land borders with the US..

Please stop wasting your time explaining a simple logic to that Monika......it exactly what American did with Afghanistan, Iraq etc ....to avoid terrorist attacks....they politically planted their soldiers for monitoring and intelligent gathering Ina name of peacekeeping of they war they created.

kazyhm:


Please to wasting your time explaining a simple logic to that Monika......it exactly what American did with Afghanistan, Iraq etc ....yo avoid terrorist attacks....they politically planted their soldiers for monitoring and intelligent gathering.

Abeg helep me ask them (Ukraine is a sovereign country people) watin Britain dey do for Falkland Islands. Falklands no even share border with Britain. Argentina claimed the Falklands in 1982 (as they have always insisted), but Thatcher and Reagan fought a war to reclaim it. Till today Falkland Islands is a British territory.

ivandragon:


Well, you may be right about USA being the ones with an agenda especially given the reality of neocolonialism. But there are a couple of issues I think need to be considered...

1. Until about the late 1800s, what is known as Ukraine today, was an independent territory until it was annexed by the Soviet Red Army. So Ukraine has a longer history of independence than Russsia wants us to believe.

2. Russia has always treated Ukraine as an appendage since the balkanisation, & as a threat since pro-democratic forces took over power in Ukraine, a key factor why Ukraine applied to join NATO.

3. If Russia was against Ukraine joining NATO, it could apply progressively severe economic, political & social sanctions... even a quarantine action (lesser form of blockade) to force Ukraine to reconsider its stance. A full scale war was not necessary... in my opinion...

4. After cowering Ukraine, Russia will now share borders with about 3-4 other former Soviet States that are now NATO members. Will it also invade them to 'secure' its own borders?

In all, I think Russia has made its point, but it has also showed that it is really a threat to surrounding sovereign nations...

I understand what you are saying my brother. Even in retrospect, shouldn't Russia have respected the sovereignty of Ukraine?
But bro, this is as my lecturers always say is "Real Politik" Russia knows that there will be a way of smuggling things into Ukraine from the west just as they did in 1948 during the "martial plan" and the smuggling of things into Eastern Berlin despite the iron curtain. Just imagine Mexico allying with Russia and other Caribbean countries . America will not have that

wirinet:


Abeg helep me ask them (Ukraine is a sovereign country people) watin Britain dey do for Falkland Islands. Falklands no even share border with Britain. Argentina claimed the Falklands in 1982 (as they have always insisted), but Thatcher and Reagan fought a war to reclaim it. Till today Falkland Islands is a British territory.

That's because the people in it voted to remain part of the UK.

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buckeyemedia:
Some Nigerian youths still get logical comprehensive reasoning.

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WibusJaga:

Putin is just a power-drunk ruler who wants to be controlling all her neighbouring former Soviet Union breakaway countries & would not tolerate any of them fraternising with NATO.
His long-term dream is to restore the former all-powerful Soviet Union, USSR back.

There is nothing strange about what Putin is doing, world powers from the west are also doing.

It's something Nigeria should also be doing because of our size and resources available to us but our leaders are more interested in stealing for their unborn generations!