| firebush03 said: Firstly, watch your language at the start bud. Don’t wanna read that. Second, chill lol. We’re discussing worldly affairs, and I can assure that neither you nor I are 100% hitting the nail-on-the-head. There’s probably more to it than NATO provocation, just as there is more to it than USSR glory. As far as there being nothing wrong with Ukraine wanting the join NATO, I want to ask you this: What would joining NATO provide for Ukraine? List all the benefits they’d receive. I know for one, Ukraine would be allowed to place nukes on Russia’s border. With this on its own, there is reason for Russia to be outraged at this prospect: Are we forgetting the Cuban Missile Crisis? (And I say these things not to say Russia is just, but rather to explain Russia’s thought-process.) So with this in mind, I personally do not believe Ukraine has the right to join NATO. Nor should they be invited. All this does is put Ukraine in greater danger — we are poking a sleeping bear known as Russia — and increased the likelihood of nuclear fallout (let me remind you that we are talking about Russia, the country with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world). |
Lists of benefits:
1. Russia won't invade Ukraine. It has worked for the Baltic states.
2. No need for a second benefit, because the one and only benefit is tremendously huge.
As for your knowledge, it's lacking. There would be no nukes in Ukraine. Just like there are no nukes in the Baltic states or Poland. American and European nuclear weapons did not move eastward since the end of the Cold War.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
