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In reply to the discussion: This may upset some DUers but after Iraq it's hard to watch the same hacks talking [View all]Xolodno
(6,390 posts)Of course not.
But they think so. When we conducted Operation Archer in 1983, a number in the Soviet Military believed it was a ruse and that war was on its way. When that intelligence filtered over to Ronold Reagan, he couldn't understand how they could have thought that.
But with continued offensive weapon deliveries, assurances by some in the west that Ukraine WILL be part of NATO someday, Zelensky jailing political opponents and him also saying he was willing to do a referendum on the breakaway territories, thereby ceding them to Moscow and enabling Ukraine to join NATO....
China doesn't really care for North Korea, but the thought of US bases right on their border continues to nix any idea of a united Korea and thus they continue to prop up the regime.
Likewise, Russia sees a Ukraine join today, tomorrow NATO bases not far from Rostov. And one can make the argument that since they have nukes, no one would dare attack them. And the counter to that, is Bush/Cheney and Trump. They see it as a long term US imperialist plan, not us taking the moral high ground.