The NATO-Russia agreement signed 25 years ago no longer binds the Alliance because Russia itself violated the agreement ...
  • OsrsNeedsF2POP
    18·
    2 years ago

    TL;DR from article:

    Under the 1997 NATO-Russia Framework Agreement, NATO has pledged not to permanently deploy significant forces in central and eastern Europe […] However, Russia has committed to refrain from aggression against its neighbours and is not complying […] As a result […] the Alliance is no longer bound by restrictions on the expansion of forces in its eastern flank.

    • pingveno
      1111·
      2 years ago

      Huh, it took Russia just a little over a decade to break that agreement by invading Georgia. Looks like NATO has had plentiful justification for the past 14 years to declare Russia in breach of the agreement.

      • guojing
        96·
        2 years ago

        Sounds like you cant wait for nuclear war. Rest assured that your country will be the main target for Russia.

        • pingveno
          78·
          2 years ago

          Russia wants to start a nuclear war?

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
            134·
            2 years ago

            Anybody with a couple of brain cells to bang together understands that it doesn’t matter who starts the nuclear war. Only an absolute idiot would cheer on conditions that make a nuclear war increasingly more likely.

            • pingveno
              59·
              2 years ago

              Are you by chance referring to Putin hinting in February that he might start a nuclear war if he felt like Ukraine’s allies were too involved in stopping the Russian invasion? Because I’m gonna have to put that one on Putin.

              • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
                94·
                2 years ago

                Russia’s policy on the use of nuclear weapons is public and clear. When somebody spells their red lines out for you and you cross them, then you share the blame. Again, moral superiority is worth nothing when you’re dead. I guess idiots will die smugly though.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
    203·
    2 years ago

    I was really worried our civilization would collapse due to climate breakdown. Turns out we’re going to die in a nuclear holocaust instead.

  • angarabebesi
    1810·
    2 years ago

    Nato is doing everything to escalate this conflict. It’s stupid.

    • OsrsNeedsF2POP
      611·
      2 years ago

      Naturally rolling over and getting raped avoids conflict, but I would certainly support defense there

  • ksynwa
    136·
    2 years ago

    They were gonna do that anyway. Now they’re just trying to blame the evil commies for their bloodlust.