Feb 25, 2022·2 repliesWhere’s that one thread from yesterday? @Scratchin_Bandit was dropping some knowledge in there, I wanna read through some things
Feb 25, 2022BabaláwoWhere’s that one thread from yesterday? @Scratchin_Bandit was dropping some knowledge in there, I wanna read through some things
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Feb 25, 2022OfflineOh no I don’t think Azerbaijan is anywhere near joining NATO (nor that they want to). Only a few countries, all already western-leaning if not aligned, might display greater interest (which of course doesn’t mean they actually join).
Paradoxically, I think NATO actually keeps Turkey in check a bit in that it stops it from going full pan-Turkist in its foreign policy, but nevertheless it supports Azerbaijan, which brings it into tensions with Armenia and Iran, and then we talked about it a couple days ago, but from there the Israeli links with Azerbaijan and Turkey. It’s even more of a mess in the Caucasus than the Balkans.
Probably the best bet for somewhere like Georgia is to try to remain broadly Western-oriented without pissing off Russia, walk a fine line.
I agree though that the prospect of tying together all these disparate tensions is very dangerous.
Also curious if you have any thoughts on the idea that a successful Russian campaign would inspire/serve as a model for others - people mention China/Taiwan, but I’m thinking especially Serbia/Bosnia.
Read the people of Republika Srpska were already talking of Russia helping them w their independence and Bosnia is also still seen as NATO-candidate, but not stable enough. So it's kinda a similar situation to Ukraine.
Bosnia def could be next looking at it like that
- Feb 25, 2022·1 reply
Volodymyr Zelensky will go down in history as a hero
OPFeb 25, 2022
Feb 25, 2022BabaláwoWhere’s that one thread from yesterday? @Scratchin_Bandit was dropping some knowledge in there, I wanna read through some things
Peep my post on first page here itt
- Feb 25, 2022Scratchin Mamba· edited
Just copying my post from the other thread responding to somebody who asked why Putin cares so much to invade and why NATO plays a part for if people come itt wonderwing why:
NATO is a military alliance that was formed in case that the West would possibly ever have to go to war with Russia during the cold war. Article 5 says that if one NATO member is attacked, it's regarded as an attack against all NATO members.
With the taking down of the Berlin wall, the US promised to Gorbachev would not move "one inch forward" to the East. A promise that has not been held as many other Eastern European countries have joined NATO.
The reason Ukrainian NATO membership is such a threat is that Ukraine is right at their borders. The black sea fleet in the Crimea was Russia's only fleet that was available year round, which is why they annexed the Crimea in 2014 after the US-backed coup in Ukraine, because they would lose access to that fleet which they see as crucial for their security.
In addition, Ukraine has also hinted at "liberating" (ie invading) the Crimea, if Ukraine does that as a NATO member, it's essentially the same as entirety of the West invading the Crimea, as Putin said here:
!https://youtu.be/RJXwLzII278Right now it, Putin isn't gonna annex all of Ukraine, but he's gonna attempt to install a puppet leader who won't pursue NATO membership and probably integrate the republics of the Donbass into the Russian Federation eventually, unless there will be diplomacy and a neutrality agreement with Ukraine and NATO.
It was also always clear that Putin was a Russian nationalist who had a lot of nostalgia for the Russian empire. He always criticized Lenin for giving nations that were part of the Czarist empire like Ukraine too much autonomy and giving republics in the USSR the right to secede. Which adds fuel to the fire.
So that's why Putin is trying to prevent this, he's taking it very far and taking a by any means necessary approach to it. Combine that with his attitudes about the Russian empire, and it's not a total surprise that he would want to do this to prevent what he regards as a region part of the former Russian empire which he dearly misses joining a hostile military alliance, but it is surprising that he's willing to face the repercussions that this will bring for Russia, which will be a lot.
- Feb 25, 2022·4 replies
china, india, and uae abstaining, interesting to abstain rather than deny veto
- Feb 25, 2022
Worst case scenario when it comes to the Azov Battallion, government is losing control over the Nazis and they're recruiting more Nazis from other countries to join in their fight. The war will be a training ground for militant Nazis all over the world.
- Feb 25, 2022·2 replieshttps://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1497342306219065345krishna bound
china, india, and uae abstaining, interesting to abstain rather than deny veto
"No"
-Russia
China doesn't suprise me. But why India and UAE?
- Feb 25, 2022·1 replyhttps://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1497342306219065345krishna bound
china, india, and uae abstaining, interesting to abstain rather than deny veto
Why India?
- Feb 25, 2022space0cadet
"No"
-Russia
China doesn't suprise me. But why India and UAE?
Despite the recent increase in ties between the US and India (a trend which I think will only continue), India and Russia are quite close as well dating back to the days of the USSR, when India was loosely aligned with the Soviets and Pakistan with the Americans (interesting reversal to today) and there's still a good amount of economic and military ties.
- Feb 25, 2022Oxnard
Why India?
if I had to guess with India it's mainly because of the historical adherence to non-alignment of the country. India likes to have room to maneuver with its own internal controversial affairs as well and that involves not alienating any possible countries. India doesn't really have any reason to alienate Russia; they don't have anything against the US or anything, but their stance toward geopolitics is supposed to be as neutral as possible.
Feb 26, 2022·1 replyhttps://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1497342306219065345krishna boundchina, india, and uae abstaining, interesting to abstain rather than deny veto
new world order type beat
- Feb 26, 2022maxx
new world order type beat
india-china relations are weird af
- Feb 26, 2022·2 replies
- Feb 26, 2022
search trend for dugin lmao
Feb 26, 2022https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1497340630518812672krishna bound yeah what’s the breakdown on what’s humanitarian and what’s the defense
Feb 26, 2022https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1497340630518812672krishna bound 
Feb 26, 2022space0cadet"No"
-Russia
China doesn't suprise me. But why India and UAE?
UAE China and Russia are all imperialist powers with interests in dunking on their respective regions. That’s it. They all want to be superpowers in their areas
- Feb 26, 2022·1 reply
I saw reports that there were NATO convoys sending supplies and arms over into Ukraine, is this actually true/real? Has anyone else seen verified reports of this?
- Feb 26, 2022·1 reply
zelensky getting good press right now
Feb 26, 2022·1 replyspongebobzelensky getting good press right now
Western propaganda at its peak
- Feb 26, 2022
- Feb 26, 2022Ryuka
Western propaganda at its peak
At least he stays in his country for now it seems like, that's already a lot