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Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by Kingsnairaland(m): 1:07pm On Feb 26, 2022
Reuters
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday it was "a crucial moment" to decide on Ukraine's membership of the European Union, as Russia continued to invade its neighbour.

Ukrainian leader says it is 'crucial moment' to decide on EU membership
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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by ayindejimmy(m): 1:13pm On Feb 26, 2022
They all will.
It's part of NATO requirements

Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by Kingsnairaland(m): 1:19pm On Feb 26, 2022
ayindejimmy:
They all will.
It's part of NATO requirements

Maybe west propaganda.
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by BafanaBafana: 1:23pm On Feb 26, 2022
Kingsnairaland:
Till 1990: NATO had 16 members
1991: Collapse of the USSR
Russia: Don't expand further
America: Okay we will not expand (verbally,
not written)
1999: Poland, Hungary and Czech republic joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so Jack off!
2004: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so jack off
2009: Albania and Croatia joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so jack off
2014: CIA funded Coup de ta to overthrow the legal government of Ukraine and install a Pro Western US puppet government
2017: Montenegro and North Macedonia joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so jack off
2021: US proposal for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia and


Ukraine to join NATO
Russia: Enough is enough, you are betraying us ever since 1990s, if we allow you, you will deploy missiles on our borders.
Western World: Russia is so aggressive, they are evil, they don't think about humanity, Russia is expanding. Putin is being unreasonable......
Hypocrite Western world!!!!!
Imagine if Canada and Mexico joined a military alliance with Russia and deployed missiles on its borders?! The US will declare war for own security.
Where was the West and the so called free world’s morality for what the US did to
secular regimes in Iraq, Afganistan ,Libya?
They turned a blind eye and destroyed these Middle Eastern countries all the while funding terrorism and supporting Wahabbi Extremist theocracies in Saudi Arabia and the gulf states which sponsor terrorists around the world.
This is not the 1980’s
People have eye and ears, the world has had enough of Western imperialism and Unipolar control over the rest of the world.
It’s about time the Western Hemisphere wakes up from its colonial wet dream of controlling the world and dictating who can and cannot be free.
Russia �� & China �� along with rest of the world should come together to form a balance of power to create a Multipolar World.
Russia have every right to defend themselves.
May God Bless Russia & Vladimir Putin.(Ameen)
They are sovereign nations for Christ's sake!

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by Kingsnairaland(m): 1:24pm On Feb 26, 2022
BafanaBafana:

They are sovereign nations for Christ's sake!

western world freedom of thinking and speech means being a slave of western ideas and propagating it only. If your idea is different from west they portrait you as criminal person and all of them tried to threatened you! This is ridiculous!
The Ukrainian leaders were the puppet and boot lickers of the western world, they are responsible for ukraine crisis!

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by Kingsnairaland(m): 1:25pm On Feb 26, 2022
BafanaBafana:

They are sovereign nations for Christ's sake!
. Was Iraq and Libya not a sovereign nation.

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by Kingsnairaland(m): 1:46pm On Feb 26, 2022
western world freedom of thinking and speech means being a slave of western ideas and propagating it only. If your idea is different from west they portrait you as criminal person and all of them tried to threatened you! This is ridiculous!
The Ukrainian leaders were the puppet and boot lickers of the western world, they are responsible for ukraine crisis!

Ukraine �� better surrender.

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by ivolt: 1:56pm On Feb 26, 2022
Fake news.
It was Ukrainian prospective deal with EU that actually started the conflict way back in 2014.
NATO membership normally takes years to ratify.
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by ivolt: 1:58pm On Feb 26, 2022
Kingsnairaland:
Till 1990: NATO had 16 members
1991: Collapse of the USSR
Russia: Don't expand further
America: Okay we will not expand (verbally,
not written)
1999: Poland, Hungary and Czech republic joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so Jack off!
2004: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so jack off
2009: Albania and Croatia joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so jack off
2014: CIA funded Coup de ta to overthrow the legal government of Ukraine and install a Pro Western US puppet government
2017: Montenegro and North Macedonia joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so jack off
2021: US proposal for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia and


Ukraine to join NATO
Russia: Enough is enough, you are betraying us ever since 1990s, if we allow you, you will deploy missiles on our borders.
Western World: Russia is so aggressive, they are evil, they don't think about humanity, Russia is expanding. Putin is being unreasonable......
Hypocrite Western world!!!!!
Imagine if Canada and Mexico joined a military alliance with Russia and deployed missiles on its borders?! The US will declare war for own security.
Where was the West and the so called free world’s morality for what the US did to
secular regimes in Iraq, Afganistan ,Libya?
They turned a blind eye and destroyed these Middle Eastern countries all the while funding terrorism and supporting Wahabbi Extremist theocracies in Saudi Arabia and the gulf states which sponsor terrorists around the world.
This is not the 1980’s
People have eye and ears, the world has had enough of Western imperialism and Unipolar control over the rest of the world.
It’s about time the Western Hemisphere wakes up from its colonial wet dream of controlling the world and dictating who can and cannot be free.
Russia �� & China �� along with rest of the world should come together to form a balance of power to create a Multipolar World.
Russia have every right to defend themselves.
May God Bless Russia & Vladimir Putin.(Ameen)
Stop posting lies.
There was no agreement between Russia and the west.
Only a fool would have agreed to such at the height of its power and enemy at its news.

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by aribisala0(m): 2:05pm On Feb 26, 2022
BafanaBafana:

They are sovereign nations for Christ's sake!
Cuba was not a sovereign nation in 1962?

Why is the US still occupying Guantanamo Bay?

Do not be naive .

You need to go back in history and study it VERY WELL.

How and why did Britain take over Hong Kong from China for 99 years
Nations are sovereign if the World powers allow it. That s how it has always been.
How was Kosovo created? Was it not part of another sovereign nation? America decided it could break away and aided it by force. The rest is geography

Sovereignty is not just in word. With the dollar hegemony even Nigeria is not sovereign. We do what Washington says


Was Libya not sovereign? Today WE are paying the price for Libya

Russia's invasion is terrible but for every person killed in Ukraine the US has killed 100. They are much worse and what is funny is how African victims of the West continue to worship them and parrot their propaganda.

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by Kingsnairaland(m): 2:25pm On Feb 26, 2022
ivolt:

Stop posting lies.
There was no agreement between Russia and the west.
Only a fool would have agreed to such at the height of its power and enemy at its news.

Too much CNN has made you not to research
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by D1official: 2:39pm On Feb 26, 2022
Kingsnairaland:
Till 1990: NATO had 16 members
1991: Collapse of the USSR
Russia: Don't expand further
America: Okay we will not expand (verbally,
not written)
1999: Poland, Hungary and Czech republic joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so Jack off!
2004: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so jack off
2009: Albania and Croatia joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so jack off
2014: CIA funded Coup de ta to overthrow the legal government of Ukraine and install a Pro Western US puppet government
2017: Montenegro and North Macedonia joined NATO
Russia: But you said you won't expand!
America: Where is the written document, so jack off
2021: US proposal for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia and


Ukraine to join NATO
Russia: Enough is enough, you are betraying us ever since 1990s, if we allow you, you will deploy missiles on our borders.
Western World: Russia is so aggressive, they are evil, they don't think about humanity, Russia is expanding. Putin is being unreasonable......
Hypocrite Western world!!!!!
Imagine if Canada and Mexico joined a military alliance with Russia and deployed missiles on its borders?! The US will declare war for own security.
Where was the West and the so called free world’s morality for what the US did to
secular regimes in Iraq, Afganistan ,Libya?
They turned a blind eye and destroyed these Middle Eastern countries all the while funding terrorism and supporting Wahabbi Extremist theocracies in Saudi Arabia and the gulf states which sponsor terrorists around the world.
This is not the 1980’s
People have eye and ears, the world has had enough of Western imperialism and Unipolar control over the rest of the world.
It’s about time the Western Hemisphere wakes up from its colonial wet dream of controlling the world and dictating who can and cannot be free.
Russia �� & China �� along with rest of the world should come together to form a balance of power to create a Multipolar World.
Russia have every right to defend themselves.
May God Bless Russia & Vladimir Putin.(Ameen)
Since there were no written documents how did you know? Were you there? Where is the evidence of CIA masterminding the coup in Ukraine? . Just endless fables!!

People just wake up and start typing rubbish just to massage their ego and end up glorifying their ignorance.

You said the world is tired of western imperialism but ended up not mentioning just one nation in support of Russian Madness.

Go and sit down and watch your Russia collapse Biko.

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by D1official: 2:44pm On Feb 26, 2022
Kingsnairaland:


Too much CNN has made you not to research
And you end up researching with Google grin
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by Nobody: 2:54pm On Feb 26, 2022
Some people are just being emotional and naive. Western media has dealt with us all. Anything the promote is right; even LGBT.

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by Kingsnairaland(m): 3:30pm On Feb 26, 2022
inspirator1:
Some people are just being emotional and naive. Western media has dealt with us all. Anything the promote is right; even LGBT.
. Exactly
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by Kingsnairaland(m): 3:35pm On Feb 26, 2022
D1official:

Since there were no written documents how did you know? Were you there? Where is the evidence of CIA masterminding the coup in Ukraine? . Just endless fables!!

People just wake up and start typing rubbish just to massage their ego and end up glorifying their ignorance.

You said the world is tired of western imperialism but ended up not mentioning just one nation in support of Russian Madness.

Go and sit down and watch your Russia collapse Biko.


https://amp.france24.com/en/russia/20220130-did-nato-betray-russia-by-expanding-to-the-east

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by walemoney007(m): 3:37pm On Feb 26, 2022
BafanaBafana:

They are sovereign nations for Christ's sake!
Why was the USA against USSR citing missiless in Cuba? something Cuba was comfortable with but the USA was against.

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by D1official: 4:41pm On Feb 26, 2022
Kingsnairaland:



https://amp.france24.com/en/russia/20220130-did-nato-betray-russia-by-expanding-to-the-east
Can you accept just a solemn pledge for a deal of just a Hundred thousand naira?.

How you think nations make just verbal deals still baffles me, not even to think of a deal such as this.

Just like I said earlier, show me a signed/written document on that effect or keep quiet.
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by sunboy(m): 4:42pm On Feb 26, 2022
BafanaBafana:

They are sovereign nations for Christ's sake!

Cuba was a sovereign nation during the Cuban missile crises.
Palestine is still a sovereign country.
Yemen and Syria are still sovereign countries.
Oh I almost forgot about Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Taiwan, Japan , HongKong even African countries were sovereign countries when the EU countries shared and colonized us.

Just saying… everybody’s hand is dirty, you only get blamed based on what side of the aisle you belong to.

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by sunboy(m): 4:43pm On Feb 26, 2022
Kingsnairaland:

. Was Iraq and Libya not a sovereign nation.

Oh I almost forgot Libya, even Egypt during the Suez Canal war.
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by sunboy(m): 4:47pm On Feb 26, 2022
ivolt:

Stop posting lies.
There was no agreement between Russia and the west.
Only a fool would have agreed to such at the height of its power and enemy at its news.

There was an agreement as a follow up on the fall of Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. Read your history, it’s okay if you don’t know.

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by sunboy(m): 4:50pm On Feb 26, 2022
aribisala0:
Cuba was not a sovereign nation in 1962?

Why is the US still occupying Guantanamo Bay?

Do not be naive .

You need to go back in history and study it VERY WELL.

How and why did Britain take over Hong Kong from China for 99 years
Nations are sovereign if the World powers allow it. That s how it has always been.
How was Kosovo created? Was it not part of another sovereign nation? America decided it could break away and aided it by force. The rest is geography

Sovereignty is not just in word. With the dollar hegemony even Nigeria is not sovereign. We do what Washington says


Was Libya not sovereign? Today WE are paying the price for Libya

Russia's invasion is terrible but for every person killed in Ukraine the US has killed 100. They are much worse and what is funny is how African victims of the West continue to worship them and parrot their propaganda.


You absolutely nailed it! Russias invasion of its neighbors is terrible and will haunt them back but Western Allie’s are not clean too. It’s only good or bad depending on what side of the table you’re on.
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by sunboy(m): 4:56pm On Feb 26, 2022
D1official:

Since there were no written documents how did you know? Were you there? Where is the evidence of CIA masterminding the coup in Ukraine? . Just endless fables!!

People just wake up and start typing rubbish just to massage their ego and end up glorifying their ignorance.

You said the world is tired of western imperialism but ended up not mentioning just one nation in support of Russian Madness.

Go and sit down and watch your Russia collapse Biko.

What are you saying ? Even NATO officials did not deny such agreements… they only said “ the pledge was about Germany not the whole of Europe” the agreement was made when the Berlin wall fell. East Germany was Soviet alligned, and West was already part of the alliance. The Soviet allowed the reunified Germany to join the alliance on the pledge that nato won’t go further East.

While Russians are saying the pledge was to cover all of Eastern Europe.

NATO/US are saying NO, it was a discussion exclusively about Germany.

So, nobody denied such agreement like you insinuated. Both sides just have a difference context of the agreement. Who’s lying about the context is the question at hand not about if such pledge existed or not.

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by ivolt: 4:57pm On Feb 26, 2022
sunboy:


There was an agreement as a follow up on the fall of Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. Read your history, it’s okay if you don’t know.
You obviously know nothing about history, government or even business deals.
Agreement has specific legal meanings.

Russia says few days ago that it is not invading Ukraine, it will be foolish
for someone to conclude that Russia had an agreement not to invade Ukraine.
This is for a factual event.

Imagine using a fictional story created by Putin as the legality of an agreement?

I may be wrong though.
Just post the agreement and its details.
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by aribisala0(m): 4:58pm On Feb 26, 2022
sunboy:


You absolutely nailed it! Russias invasion of its neighbors is terrible and will haunt them back but Western Allie’s are not clean too. It’s only good or bad depending on what side of the table you’re on.
I would argue Russia is able to do this because of the precedents in impunity of the West e.g invasion of Iraq and deposing of Sadaam on cooked up excuses without consequence because there was no one to sanction them.

We in Africa need to learn that recolonization is now a reality and no one got our backs.

We must open our eyes and see the world with our own yes . I remember Fela's song

I done put melecin for eye . Babalawo melecin I put.......


The king wey dey our country na hire him hire him eye
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by sunboy(m): 5:00pm On Feb 26, 2022
ivolt:

You obviously know nothing about history, government or even business deals.
Agreement has specific legal meanings.

Russia says few days ago that it is not invading Ukraine, it will be foolish
for someone to conclude that Russia had an agreement not to invade Ukraine.
This is for a factual event.

Imagine using a fictional story created by Putin as the legality of an agreement?

I may be wrong though.
Just post the agreement and its details.

You have absolute no idea. Lots of credible websites covered it, I am not about to paste web links for you… if you don’t know you don’t argue.

Even NATO officials did not deny such agreements… they only said “ the pledge was about Germany not the whole of Europe” the agreement was made when the Berlin wall fell. East Germany was Soviet alligned, and West was already part of the alliance. The Soviet allowed the reunified Germany to join the alliance on the pledge that nato won’t go further East.

While Russians are saying the pledge was to cover all of Eastern Europe.

NATO/US are saying NO, it was a discussion exclusively about Germany.

So, nobody denied such agreement like you insinuated. Both sides just have a difference context of the agreement. Who’s lying about the context is the question at hand not about if such pledge existed or not.

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by sunboy(m): 5:03pm On Feb 26, 2022
aribisala0:
I would argue Russia is able to do this because of the precedents in impunity of the West e.g invasion of Iraq and deposing of Sadaam on cooked up excuses without consequence because there was no one to sanction them.

We in Africa need to learn that recolonization is now a reality and no one got our backs.

We must open our eyes and see the world with our own yes . I remember Fela's song

I done put melecin for eye . Babalawo melecin I put.......


The king wey dey our country na hire him hire him eye

First, I would have bet my money that Putin won’t invade. They are you neighbors, he already took Crimea, Dombass and even Luhansk. He’s just a mad man, and he knew he could do it with impunity cos everybody else do the same. Even Isreal is doing it’s own with impunity, not to talk of a super power.
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by aribisala0(m): 5:07pm On Feb 26, 2022
ivolt:

You obviously know nothing about history, government or even business deals.
Agreement has specific legal meanings.

Russia says few days ago that it is not invading Ukraine, it will be foolish
for someone to conclude that Russia had an agreement not to invade Ukraine.
This is for a factual event.

Imagine using a fictional story created by Putin as the legality of an agreement?

I may be wrong though.
Just post the agreement and its details.

It is not fictional there have been videos shown on RT where verbal assurances were given. Yes we can argue they have no legal force. But the reality of international relatins is that if agreements do not favour the powerful they are re written AT GUN POINT


That is how Lagos became a protectorate of the British and How Britain snatched Hong Kong from China at gunpoint

We live in an "at gun point " world where might is right. The West have always operated on that basis .If you did not know then Good Morning.

Let us not pretend that there is a civilized world order of rules

The World order is one of dominant interests


Do you believe that the Naira lost 60% of its value in 7 years just because of government incompetence?

No the financial system of the World operates to concentrate Capital in London and New York . They have the power to wipe out your currency in days. That is not an organic scenario. It is contrived, manipulated and enforced.



It is like watching a football game when the result has already been written and the fans naively believe there is a genuine competition

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Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by ivolt: 5:10pm On Feb 26, 2022
sunboy:


You have absolute no idea. Lots of credible websites covered it, I am not about to paste web links for you… if you don’t know you don’t argue.
Websites?
I didn't know that internet was live in 1989.


Even NATO officials did not deny such agreements… they only said “ the pledge was about Germany not the whole of Europe” the agreement was made when the Berlin wall fell. East Germany was Soviet alligned, and West was already part of the alliance. The Soviet allowed the reunified Germany to join the alliance on the pledge that nato won’t go further East.
While Russians are saying the pledge was to cover all of Eastern Europe.
One of you should surprise me with facts.


NATO/US are saying NO, it was a discussion exclusively about Germany.
How can it be exclusively about Germany, when Germany was already a member of NATO at the time of reunification?


So, nobody denied such agreement like you insinuated. Both sides just have a difference context of the agreement. Who’s lying about the context is the question at hand not about if such pledge existed or not.
Actually, nobody except Putin and his admirers accept such a ridiculous story.
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by sunboy(m): 5:14pm On Feb 26, 2022
ivolt:

Websites?
I didn't know that internet was live in 1989.


One of you should surprise me with facts.


How can it be exclusively about Germany, when Germany was already a member of NATO at the time of reunification?


Actually, nobody except Putin and his admirers accept such a ridiculous story.


First, There was no Germany. There was East Germany and West Germany.

2nd, you just want to argue baselessly… if you can read I’m not about to do that for you. Have a good day!
Re: Ukraine's President changes mind want To Join European Union Rather Than Nato , by aribisala0(m): 5:17pm On Feb 26, 2022
sunboy:


First, I would have bet my money that Putin won’t invade. They are you neighbors, he already took Crimea, Dombass and even Luhansk. He’s just a mad man, and he knew he could do it with impunity cos everybody else do the same. Even Isreal is doing it’s own with impunity, not to talk of a super power.
Let us leave all that "mad man" and other emotional stuff to one side


If you are old enough to have been aware during the Cold War and the fall of Berlin you would understand.

His actions are completely rational based on Russian interest

After the fall of NAZI Germany in 1945 the US became the dominant force in Western Europe militarily and economically and was hostile to Communism .

After the fall of Communism the Natural thing to do would be to integrate Russia into Europe. The US see that as a threat and has done everything to stifle the economic progress of Russia. and to undermine and humiliate it


Just imagine how dominant the US would be in the world if Russia did not exist.

Sometimes you need to fight wars to show the world what you are capable of . The US did that in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nothing new


Ultimately Russia and NATO will go to war , that is inevitable because after Ukraine Russia will still want to push NATO out of Poland, Latvia Lithuania and Estonia. That is obvious and predictable
America does not want this confrontation because they want to focus on China and Taiwan . That priority has been changed .If you think about it like a football game .....right now who has ball possession?

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