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Old 02-27-2022, 07:58 AM   #7
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Correction: Putin invaded Ukraine because he believed Trump had weakened NATO, split the allies, and divided America.
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No, NATO is divided because Central/Western Europe but particularly Germany got used to spending less on their own defense and expecting the USA to pick up their defense. Putin has for well over a decade done everything possible to erode NATO.

Trump surely divided you.

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seems like we overestimated our influence with China, underestimated the relationship China has with Russia....Russian got all of our intelligence and a stronger alliance with and reassurances from China...not sure how that is good

maybe we can give putin our intelligence regarding china and taiwan and ask him to encourage them not to invade
No, we'll still need to work with them and vice versa - for now. Wait till we bring up Climate Change.

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is putin simply "wrecking Ukraine"?

pretty interesting from 2015

Going to cost Putin Russia at this rate.

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