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> Ukraine: to abandon plans to join NATO. No, for Ukraine and NATO to sign a guarantee Ukraine will never join NATO. Which is a ridiculous thing to ask, just l
by sofixa 5y ago
> Ukraine: to abandon plans to join NATO.
No, for Ukraine and NATO to sign a guarantee Ukraine will never join NATO. Which is a ridiculous thing to ask, just like Danzig, or the Autro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia was. And of course, it was 1) deliberately unacceptable 2) all for show, as Kadyrov's leaked communications show ( he's talking about the impeding invasion weeks in advance).
The lack of complete parity doesn't impede drawing parallels where they exist, and there are a lot of them.
- brabel 5y ago> The lack of complete parity doesn't impede drawing parallels where they exist, and there are a lot of them. The parallels you're drawing could've been drawn with every single other armed conflict in history.
- sofixa 5y agoDo share a few examples where: * the aggressor makes an impossible to accept ultimatum * claims their enemy isn't really of a different ethnicity and historically belongs to the aggressor * stages false flag operations to excuse their invasion None of these is in any way new, or revolutionary, and wasn't invented by the Nazis, or the Austrians in WWI, but it's not a mandatory element of every other armed conflict of history. And even if it were, it's still valid to compare to other such conflicts, like WWI and WWII, including the Nazis.