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NATO may theoretically have the whip hand, but in practical terms? It's in NATO's interest to keep Ukraine in the fight. Risking a Ukrainian defeat by withholding support just to force Zelensky to negotiate to NATO's terms is like throwing out the baby with the bath water. Duhh!The West is funding and supplying and supporting Ukraine in this war. That's an act of war in itself. Russia is fighting NATO by proxy.
So NATO has the whip hand and has a lot more in this fight. So absolutely NATO can dictate terms. Ukraine would be back to 2014 if NATO suddenly gave up.
Don't you just love auto-correct? You proofread your words before you hit POST REPLY, then it pops up on the thread "corrected"! AARRGGH!! Often the "corrections" make no sense at all, just R2D2 trying to read your mind and put words in your mouth. I would delete him if Samsung and 'droid would let me. It seems each generation of these infernal gadgets has more automation and less user control of its features.Ugggh! Yeah, stupid typo. I need to use my laptop and not my phone. He said that he wants the US and NATO to declare terms. I meant to ask how he thought they could do that. They cannot.
Acceptable in the idea that things could be worse. Not acceptable in that things are good.
My father in law had bad cancer. He was given 2 choices. Be cut up or die.
He got plenty cut up. I can say that you wouldn't want that one bit. But it was acceptable because of the alternative.
NATO can tell Ukraine to do whatever it wants. It is the money and power behind Ukraine. So Ukraine must do what NATO says or be cut off.
Now there maybe a window of opportunity coming up soon. From what I read by 1st June, if war continued then Russia will be totally and utterly exhausted. There ability to fight a conventional war is so degraded as to be worthless. Let's see what happens then.
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One of the cosmonauts said the suits were yellow because the had a lot of yellow spacesuit material left. They had to use it up.According to Russia the flight suits are yellow cos they yellow.
They don't signifies nothing.
Very very strange though.
So it wasn't appeasement but the Germans were not messing with our stuff so we didn't care.
The only reason? Many more billions were spent in Afghanistan.The only reason Ukraine is doing as well as it is because NATO are sending billions of dollars worth of arms to them. Probably also intel and who knows what else. Money and supplies by the truck load.
If NATO was not backing Ukraine fully with money and weapons then Ukraine would do as well as it did in 2014.The only reason? Many more billions were spent in Afghanistan.
That crime needs punishment way more stronger than just a few seconds in prison!
Not only every single person in chain of command, but also all of guards, ground crews, intelligence officers, and anyone else included, has to be executed in most fearsome way as an active revenge response, not only themselves, but also their families.
Nope - you saw how well Ukraine did at stopping Russia from stealing their land in 2014.If NATO was not backing Ukraine fully with money and weapons then Ukraine would do as well as it did in 2014.