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not my point, by far. my bad, I should have elaborate on the previous comment. the point being: the hystorical moment where you live in matters a lot in this kind of choices. NATO is always the wrong answer, imho, though i think I fully understand if people would chase any solution in order to no longer see their dears die like animals, be it on the battlefield or in their houses.
LISTEN, people. This is the core tankie ideology. They don't actually care about communism. They're not communists. They're just anti-Western.
All the contradictions and cognitive dissonance we point out is explained by this. This is the motivating factor. The SOLE motivating factor, with various layers of denialism and obfuscation on top of it.
I mean NATO was created as an answer on how to handle Russian aggression.
*USSR aggression
same right now
all that follows is imho.
nope. nato was created to balance two empires. unfortunately both of them still exist.
Nope! “Created to balance”? Are you even trying? What a silly thing you say.
yeah in Germany, France, Italy, etc