Oh, just STFU, and quit pretending to speak for Trump, loser.
NATO is how we rob Europe and make vassals of them.DeezerShoove » Today, 6:05 pm » wrote: ↑ What good is NATO to the US?
Why should we US citizens fear/hate Russians?
Trump will not settle the war in Putin's favor because there is affinity. At the level of monsters, affinities play no role. Strengths and weaknesses dictate outcomes.Mrkelly » Today, 6:07 pm » wrote: ↑ never said any of the above
just splainin how it’s gonna go for Ukraine
ConWave is not well. Never has been I suspect.Mrkelly » Today, 5:59 pm » wrote: ↑ Elections have consequences
tRump hates NATO and wants it gone
tRump has a friendship with Putin that is going to say “**** you” to Ukraine
but you will think that it is a good idea once tRump says so
1. NATO is cash cow for the MIC...MIC doesn't care about the US. They care about profit and empire.DeezerShoove » Today, 6:05 pm » wrote: ↑ What good is NATO to the US?
Why should we US citizens fear/hate Russians?
NATO was NEVER about protecting anyone.DeezerShoove » Today, 6:16 pm » wrote: ↑ I merely asked your opinion on two things you brought up.
US investment in NATO has been enormous over the decades. Has that org. saved us from being attacked or in conflicts? Has the cost yielded commensurate benefits? Like paying for a burglar alarm system - you don't know if the window stickers stopped the break-in or not. IMHO it's damned hard to see the benefits but easy to see the membership creep.
Personally, I do not "fear" the Russians like I'm apparently supposed to...
These are two opinions I'm not afraid of voicing, scaredy cat.
Quite the optimist.Cannonpointer » 35 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Oh, just STFU, and quit pretending to speak for Trump, loser.
Trump is going to settle the war in Ukraine by giving Putin all of the territory he has taken - and likely some that he has not taken. I would not be shocked to see Trump draw the line at the Dnipro River.
There is nothing optimistic in my assertion. Trump has promised to end the war - and he likes to keep his promises. The entire world wants this war to end, and Trump ending it will let him preen. And preening is his favorite pastime.
Putin will bow to Trump?Cannonpointer » 14 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ There is nothing optimistic in my assertion. Trump has promised to end the war - and he likes to keep his promises. The entire world wants this war to end, and Trump ending it will let him preen. And preening is his favorite pastime.
And most importantly, he has the power to end it. He can force the green t-shirt to accept his dictates by the threat of dropping him like a hot rock and leaving him to Putin's tender mercies. Likewise, he can threaten Putin with NATO going all in - which would be very stupid of NATO, but would also be extremely inconvenient to Putin, who is a builder, not a squanderer. And it isn't like Putin doesn't want the war to end, after all. He does - and Trump is certainly smart enough not to make ending it more painful than continuing it.
Perhaps the Dnipro is optimistic. But Trump likes clean lines. Rivers are wonderful borders.
Sumela » 46 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ NATO was NEVER about protecting anyone.
It is about controlling Europe and demonizing Russia
so that there is no alignment between them.
'Keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down'
– those were the words of Nato's first Secretary General, Lord Ismay.
Sumela » 51 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ 1. NATO is cash cow for the MIC...MIC doesn't care about the US. They care about profit and empire.
2. Because the Oligarchs want you to.
Cannonpointer » Today, 8:18 pm » wrote: ↑ Oh, just STFU, and quit pretending to speak for Trump, loser.
Trump is going to settle the war in Ukraine by giving Putin all of the territory he has taken - and likely some that he has not taken. I would not be shocked to see Trump draw the line at the Dnipro River.
Yes. Vlad never wanted this war to start. Now he wants it to end. He is a builder. Not a squanderer. He wants to build up Russia - not tear down Ukraine.
He is. As am I.DeezerShoove » 6 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ MrKelly coulda said that. I am quite sure he would be of the same mind.
I guess he could have and he prolly would concur.DeezerShoove » 6 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ MrKelly coulda said that. I am quite sure he would be of the same mind.
Those same schools are now teaching that many girls have penises.DeezerShoove » 12 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ I was taught in school that NATO was meant to prevent Soviet aggression.
Not sure what Soviet aggression is.DeezerShoove » 12 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ I was taught in school that NATO was meant to prevent Soviet aggression.
So I guess that was more or less correct.
Seems that "aggression" was assumed to be innate in being born Russian.
Nothing NATO could do but defend like a ****.
Even a monkey can hurt you, if he has a monkey wrench.Sumela » 28 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Putin will bow to Trump?
Trump will tell Putin what to do?
Sorry sir...but...sound like colonialism.
"""Good lil Putie...do as I tell you"""
Maybe Putin will tell Trump what Putin will do.
I think it was a reaction to fears after WWII and those fears were displaced with a cold war detent.Cannonpointer » 21 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ He is. As am I.
What do YOU think the purpose of NATO is? Protecting democracy?
When I asked its purpose, I asked in the present tense. This is not to agree with your history, but to say that the history isn not worth arguing about in the present. In MY view of NATO's history, it was always intended to make vassals of Europe's nations.DeezerShoove » 4 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ I think it was a reaction to fears after WWII and those fears were displaced with a cold war detent.
Which was a "permanent" madness on both sides.
NATO became useful in that cold war and kept it semi-relevant as a so-called defensive/deterrent org.
Expansion of that org. wasn't supposed to be in the cards but it came anyway.
Every nation that joins NATO must immediately gear up, as a condition of membership, to NATO's military standards.DeezerShoove » 4 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ So, Russia got whipsawed by China on one side and Nato on the other while the Soviet structure grew thin.
Whatever they claimed at the start of NATO has long been displaced.
Are they protecting democracy? Hardly. Seems like they want to be big enough to be invincible, though.
The more countries they can claim as members,
the more opportunities they can claim they got their noses bent out of shape.
When Peru joins I'm going to start to wonder...