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0 pointspbhjpbhj2mo ago0 comments

If Putin didn't want NATO getting involved if he started a war there's one special trick he could have played! He could have not started a war ...

The only reason Ukraine joining NATO is a problem is if Putin/Russia (or someone else) wants to attack them.

I know there's a real risk of peaceful trade, mutual alliance, humanity, and democracy from breaking out in such circumstances but somehow I think the risk might be worth it for the billions of us who aren't completely fucked up megalomaniacs.

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monocasa2mo ago

> The only reason Ukraine joining NATO is a problem is if Putin/Russia (or someone else) wants to attack them.

I mean, that's objectively not true since Libya, who attacked no one, but had a NATO bombing campaign to assist their civil war.

NATO is no longer a purely defensive pact.

pbhjpbhjOP2mo ago

Who joined NATO that you're blaming the Libya military interventions on?

If your inference is true then Ukraine's membership would be entirely orthogonal to any intervention NATO took to prevent Putin from committing genocide against his own people.

If NATO would come to Ukraine's aid anyway, then again their membership doesn't matter.

All NATO membership adds is a promise of defence.

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