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Lt Ripley

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05/04/24

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Originally posted by Cosmoterios ↑

Unfortunately, there was never going to be peace after 2014 coup.

After that, the "New" Ukrainian Gov, ditched their Neutrality, as enshrined in their own Constitution - by amending their Constitution to seek Nato membership.

Russia was Never going to allow Ukraine to join Nato.  Their security would be at risk.   It would be same as  if Mexico joined in a military alliance with Russia or China; then US would invade Mexico pre-emptively.

In any case, once Ukraine amended their Constitution to seek Nato membership, war was inevitable.

Ukraine had a last chance to pull back in 2022, by accepting Russia's demand to remain "Neutral", but it chose to go with Boris, believing Nato would provide superior weapons and coupled with economic sanctions, would cripple Russia.

That was a terrible error in political judgement from Zelenskyy.   So far, more than 500,000 Ukrainian have paid the ultimate price, along with hundreds of billions in infrastructure destruction.

There are now too many bruised egos from both sides to back down.  Nobody seem interested in finding a peaceful solution anymore.

The issue for me, is whether this war is contained with Ukraine or spread and escalate until WW3.

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With the statements like this, the Ukraine catastrophe is heading one way and one way only. Not sure what Ukraine Blinken is referring to, since Russia is keen to create a ‘larger sanitary zone’ in near future.
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