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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1014090" data-attributes="member: 56232">Yet Russia has never stopped to ask itself why the new nations that joined NATO did so? As evidence, look at what has happened in the ex-Soviet nations that didn&#039;t go for NATO protection, Russia is back to bullying them again. Georgia - invaded, Ukraine - invaded. Had the breakup of the USSR been benevolent and had these nations not been terrified of Russian tyranny, they would never have joined NATO. NATO could have broken up instead and would any NATO nations have chosen to join the USSR? Nope.Anyway Russia has been insecure for far longer than the Cold War, since before even the revolution Russia was insecure about it&#039;s position in the world. For literally centuries they have been demanding the world see them as strong and have been acting in a way to try to achieve that. Nothing has changed, they still want to be seen as strong, they still demand they be given respect whilst trying to bully their way to the top and showing no respect to anyone else.In other news, Trump has pardoned US soldiers convicted of committing war crimes, including the murder of Iraqi children. He has also pardoned his rich supporters who were found to have lied under oath or insider trading. He is a corrupt scumbag and there will be even more pardons for his cronies. It&#039;s now just a question of how many criminals he will give a free pass to and how much damage he will do before he finally goes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1014090, member: 56232"] Yet Russia has never stopped to ask itself why the new nations that joined NATO did so? As evidence, look at what has happened in the ex-Soviet nations that didn't go for NATO protection, Russia is back to bullying them again. Georgia - invaded, Ukraine - invaded. Had the breakup of the USSR been benevolent and had these nations not been terrified of Russian tyranny, they would never have joined NATO. NATO could have broken up instead and would any NATO nations have chosen to join the USSR? Nope. Anyway Russia has been insecure for far longer than the Cold War, since before even the revolution Russia was insecure about it's position in the world. For literally centuries they have been demanding the world see them as strong and have been acting in a way to try to achieve that. Nothing has changed, they still want to be seen as strong, they still demand they be given respect whilst trying to bully their way to the top and showing no respect to anyone else. In other news, Trump has pardoned US soldiers convicted of committing war crimes, including the murder of Iraqi children. He has also pardoned his rich supporters who were found to have lied under oath or insider trading. He is a corrupt scumbag and there will be even more pardons for his cronies. It's now just a question of how many criminals he will give a free pass to and how much damage he will do before he finally goes. [/QUOTE]

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