The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in response to the Soviet Union's occupation of half of Europe after World War II. The Soviets were the first aggressors toward Europe and America since Adolf Hitler. The Russian Federation, under Vladimir Putin, continues to act as an aggressor toward Europe, even after the Soviet Union's collapse.
Putin has threatened the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) and several Eastern European countries, which were formerly occupied by the Soviets, against joining NATO. His aim is to reinforce Russian control over the Baltic states and Eastern Europe. Recall how Finland and Sweden joined NATO after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022? Indeed, Russia's actions alone drove these nations to align with the West out of fear.
There is a reason Putin did not invade Ukraine before 2014. Pro-Russian Ukrainian presidents, who acted as Kremlin puppets, kept Ukraine under Russia's influence, maintaining an outdated Soviet mindset. Putin became enraged when Ukraine shifted toward a pro-Western stance.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine's president, is not the problem. Putin is.
From KGB Lt. Col. in the Soviet Union to Russia's enduring leader: Young Putin in uniform (~1985 -1991). He called the USSR's collapse a 'geopolitical catastrophe' & still seeks to reclaim 'historical Russia' amid Ukraine talks. Desires unchanged: power, influence, no Western “encroachment”.
Taiwan fired U.S. mobile missile launchers into the strategic waters directly facing China for the first time, sending a message of resolve to Beijing and Washington https://t.co/AdMf0o1OEA
@ZelenskyyUa You really adapted to a changing nature of warfare. The world is watching your forces on battlefield because you leading the change of warfare forever
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's message to the Lebanese people:
Israel is not at war with Lebanon. We're at war with Hezbollah, that has taken your country hostage, that does Iran's bidding, that uses your territory to launch terrorist attacks against Israel.
Once Hezbollah is dismantled, the possibilities are endless.
ZELENSKYY: I don’t want to agree or disagree with Trump, because he has his own relationship with Putin. But I’ve always told him that he can’t trust Putin or his inner circle, that Putin is playing games with him. God bless, American society remains strong supporter of Ukraine.
@AfroJew84@LouisWoodhill@dhulqarnayn786 This is the point. No declaration of war means no mobilisation. Dirty tactic military special operation don’t need mobilisation
The USS Liberty conspiracy theory asks you to accept that Israel, a nation of 2.5 million people fighting for its literal survival on six fronts simultaneously against 110 million Arabs equipped with Soviet tanks, Soviet aircraft, and Soviet warships, and with no formal American alliance, no American weapons, and no guarantee that anyone was coming to save them, is chose day four of that existential war to deliberately attack the one country on earth that might eventually become their ally, in broad daylight, in international waters, leaving 174 survivors who could identify the attacking forces, while fourteen separate investigations across two governments found zero evidence of intent, while Israel’s own military had accidentally bombed its own armored column the day before proving how catastrophically identification fails in wartime chaos, and while not a single one of the conspiracy theory’s proponents in nearly six decades of trying has ever managed to agree on what Israel was actually trying to accomplish by doing it.
Heavy lift.
@IanCarrollShow@jerrodwhite I’m confused… what is this? It is either this being passive inciters/agitators, sense of entitlement to criticise Israel as collective, not individuals or you are waiting for another Hitler lol
@IanCarrollShow@jerrodwhite What are you waiting for? You will never join Islamic groups to fight against Jews because at the end of the day you guys don’t like each other. Again what are you waiting for? Someone else like Hitler to rise up to lead you? Remember Hitler killed himself. He was in the endgame