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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo will Russia ban the West and Japan from
their Space Station? You know a ban for a ban makes the whole world banned
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Europe needs it. Russia needs the revenue of course but I doubt Europe is going to volunteer for a renewed recession over the redrawing of Ukraine's borders. As I've said from the start, our policy of pushing Nato eastward was inevitably going to result in a pushback from a nationalistic Russian regime reclaiming its historic zone of national interest in eastern Europe. We are going to cave. We aren't going to fight a land war with Russia and nobody is going to go nuclear.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)That sounds as if those countries were forced to join Nato.
Allying with the West was a better deal than allying with Russia and now WE are to blame for THEM joining US?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)from Russia, who they knew would recover from the collapse and soon re-assert its traditional dominance of the region. We were incredibly stupid to have offered them this sort of guarantee.