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And what do you think Saddam Hussein was doing with his Bathist party to keep the Iraqis in line??? Same as Assads father was doing in Syria, when Assads Father Hafez, pounded the city of Hama in 1982 with heavy artillery for 5 days, then moved bulldozers in to level the remains. He killed 20'000 Syrians, and to this day, it remains the single biggest massacre in Syrian history. Saddam and the Ayatollah Khomeini killed more than 500'000 Iranian / Iraqi soldiers in their little spiff, and many more civilians. I have Iraqi friends, and to this day what the have to say about Saddam is unprintable. He ( like Iran)had his secret police, and their "interrogation" methods do not bear thinking about. Monsters, just like Putins.

Yeah, keep injecting the copium. Russia’s actions encourage countries to join NATO for their own safety. All of this, they is…EVERYTHING, is Russias doing. But you keep on feeding off the Russian drug. Bet you wouldn’t want to live there.

It would be one thing if Ukraine stood to become the only NATO country on Russia's border, but that ship has long since sailed. In fact, if this war is truly an effort to prevent Ukraine joining NATO, then it has spectacularly backfired. The Finland-Russia border runs over 800 miles. That is in addition to the Norway border and the Baltics' borders.

@odyssey06

Was that agreement not suspended in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea?

In any case, there is no evidence to say that NATO has nukes anywhere as near to Russian borders as vice-versa. The nuclear weapons stored in Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Greece and Turkey are supposed to only be gravity bomb stockpiles, not ballistic missiles.

There may be nuclear missiles pointed at Russia, but the evidence would suggest they're ICBMs stationed in silos within the continental USA.

Is not true. Where you get this?

No, it wasn't suspended by NATO following Crimea even though that was a violation.

The Founding Act contained two key assurances to show that NATO enlargement posed no military threat to Russia. First, NATO members reiterated that they had “no intention, no plan and no reason to deploy nuclear weapons on the territory of new members” (the “three no’s”). Second, the Alliance stated that “in the current and foreseeable security environment,” NATO defense did not require the “additional permanent stationing of substantial combat forces” in new members.

One interesting thing is that Ukrainian drones are hitting targets deep within Russia. On the one hand, Russia deserves (as a state, at least) to have the war brought home to it in some way, but on the other hand, it gives them easy propaganda fodder and more motivation for Russian recruits to go fight. I hope Ukraine has weighed up these considerations when deciding to use the tactic.

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