What is the purpose of NATO?

Very good interview with a foreign fighter. It's not stated but he must be an Israeli combat veteran

A British man who travelled to Ukraine to join the military fight against Russia's invasion says he left the warzone amid fears he was facing a "suicide mission".

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-briton-who-travelled-to-warzone-to-join-military-fight-against-russia-leaves-over-suicide-mission-fears-12566254?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

It should also be mentioned that Kaliningrad allows the Russians to deploy its nukes much closer to Paris/London/Berlin. Kaliningrad cuts down the time their nukes would be in the air between their launch and their detonation in European cities from 10 to 4 minutes or something along these lines, which makes it infinitely harder to intercept them. Hence, Kaliningrad is instrumental in Russia's ability to maintain MAD in the face of advances in anti-missile tech.

This, rather than the ice-free port on the Baltic Sea, is the true value of Kaliningrad.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 15 2022 01:56pm

1. ultra confident self starter
2. well meaning but completely out of his depth.
not surprised by any of that.
both of those posts are very relevant ty both.

"British"




Are the Russian people behind this war at all? Is aggregate indifference a sign of a weak population? I've only heard mixed things through censored channels, but my impression is the Russian people are largely against this. At first, there was more speech protest before government anti-speech efforts, now people that are stopped and interviewed on the streets do not discuss at all out of fear. In private, former colleagues out of St. Petersburg and Minsk express great shame and also surprise. From past conversations years ago, these colleagues would prefer not to speak of Putin/Russia and would say things like 'it does not matter my political opinion, the government does as it likes in Russia'.

I've only heard things in recent years like 'Russians are the last men on Earth' - Don Frye The Predator
* Fedor is even from Ukraine

However, it seems pathetically weak of a populace to take an indifference stance when your own kin are being victimized by a pale pasty.

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Mar 15 2022 02:07pm

it's literally in the post you quoted there, you're really struggling with reading comprehension, huh?

the same option russia had before poland joined and the baltic states: NOT to invade them.



what's the purpose of shifting away from trade? could you please elaborate or support your claim that countries joining NATO was bad for russian business? because to me that simply doesn't ring true.

Its a completely different, suppressed nation < Russia >. quite similar to China in alot of regards "do as you are told or else".



you are being foolish (still). if Russia did not invade, how could it safeguard its interests ? trying to talk to you is very tiring.


This post was edited by ferdia on Mar 15 2022 02:08pm

easy: withdraw their troops from the border, normalise relations, trade.

if you disagree, please specify what legitimate "interest" regarding a sovereign nation pootin has that forced him to go to war.