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Speaking of treaty obligations, Ukraine gave up their nuclear arsenal because Russia agreed to respect Ukraine's borders and sovereignty.
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@iljenshumilin467 Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. This is literally the only time since Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1991 that a nation has used the military to steal territory from a sovereign nation. In addition, Putin goes on Russian TV and claims that Ukraine is historically Russia and therefore doesn't deserve their independence. This doesn't seem like Russia is respecting Ukraine's borders or sovereignty.
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@Demon88061 False, on paper, Ukraine and Belarus were equal members of the Soviet Union, so they had equal rights to those nukes. Either way, Russia still signed a treaty saying they would respect Ukraine's sovereignty and borders.
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@davoodoo8042 The agreement: 1) Respect Belarusian, Kazakh and Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders. 2) Refrain from the threat or the use of force against Belarus, Kazakhstan or Ukraine. 3) Refrain from using economic pressure on Belarus, Kazakhstan or Ukraine to influence their politics. 4) Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to Belarus, Kazakhstan or Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used". 5) Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Belarus, Kazakhstan or Ukraine. 6) Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments. There isn't any obligation of Ukraine to remain neutral.
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@cube_2593 They should also surrender Russia to Mongolia. History demands it!
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@toh786 The Russian proxies rebelled before that law took effect. Try again.
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@toh786 The Russian proxies only think the democratically elected, Jewish president is a Nazi due to a lack of common sense and Russian misinformation. Poland is turning away refugees from Africa and the Middle East. This is shameful, but it has nothing to do with Ukraine. Ukraine officials don't have any control of Poland's border guards. Try again.
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@lemishka4348 The Soviet Union was a union of equals, so Russia is as much of a successor of the USSR as Kazakhstan. Russia didn't have entitlement to those nukes and that is why Russia signed an agreement with those countries in exchange for them to denuclearise.
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@lemishka4348 With that logic, Russia doesn't have a right to their nuclear weapons or UN Security Council Seat. Those belong to the defunct Soviet Union .
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@davoodoo8042 South Sudan and Scotland both went through legal processes to succeed. Crimea did not.
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@Laika24102007 If treaties are meaningless, then why is Russia so scared of nations signing onto the NATO treaties? Yes, trade... Russia literally attacked Ukraine in 2014 for seeking trade ties with the EU. Putin is willing to use violence to keep the country subservient to him in all matters.
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@lemishka4348 Your right Russian treaty obligations are meaningless when Putin has as much respect for sovereignty as Hitler did. The way Putin talks about Ukraine sounds just like how Hitler spoke of the Sudetenland.
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@davoodoo8042 It hard to take you seriously when your entire point is based on conspiracy theories
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@Laika24102007 What treaty says Ukraine would neutral? None. Putin makes things up and a gullible Russian population believes it.
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@Laika24102007 NATO is a defensive alliance and all members are independent. If all members were American client states as Russian propaganda claims, then most of the alliance wouldn't have ignored America when they asked for assistance in Iraq. NATO actually protects the independence of its members through collective protection.
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@Laika24102007 NATO is defensive alliance because that is how the articles are written. For example, there isn't any article that can be used to compel members to do anything other than defend one another. America can't even use its NATO base in Turkey for operations in Syria or Iraq without Turkey's permission. You are taking Stoltenberg out of context. He was saying that Russia doesn't get veto power over it neighbors' ability to seek closer relationships with countries other than Russia. It would be like America saying that Mexico isn't allowed to have a free trade deal with China, because Mexico is in the US's sphere of influence.
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@GH-oi2jf Russia signed a treaty saying that they would respect Ukraine's sovereignty. On other side, Putin claims that the West promised Russia not to expand behind close doors. One claim has obvious evidence, while the other is the word of a KGB agent.
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@markarmage3776 When the democratically-elected Ukrainian parliament impeached the president for killing Ukrainian citizens, it was illegitimate for not following the constitution, but when Russian proxies held bogus referendums in defiance of the constitution, it is okay? It sounds like Russians only care about the law when it benefits them. Also, only Russians are gullible enough to believe Putin's lies about an Ukrainian offensive. You ever wonder why Putin made media sources outside of his control punishable by 15 years in jail?
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@markarmage3776 The president at the time lost his legitimacy when he ordered the security services to shoot Ukrainian citizens for simply protesting. The elected legislator voted to impeach him overwhelming for it. In addition that was 8 years ago. There has been two separate, free elections since then. You make it sound like Zelenskyy seized power in a coup when he was just an actor at the time and has only become president recently.
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@robertbaratheon8635 Nukes are already in Turkey, Germany, and nuclear subs along Russia's coast. NATO doesn't need nukes in Ukraine to threaten Russia. However, Ukraine obviously need protection from unprovoked Russian aggression.
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@prasadmv511 You are taking things Article 5 too seriously. Russia was invading Turkey's air space from Syria, but no NATO power was going to take Turkey seriously if they declared Article 5. NATO, Nazis, Ukraine being Russia, are all lies by Putin to make all of Russia's neighbors submit to him.
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@markarmage3776 Cares about the law? Putin's opposition figure was poisoned by Putin and then they sent him to a Siberian prison for seeking medical care out of Putin's reach. Clearly, Putin ignores the law when it benefits him, and then weaponizes it when it's convenient.
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Throw out every conspiracy theory and see which one sticks. It's similar to how Trump throws out hundreds of fake voter fraud claims.
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@ericwalker2434 Because Russia broke their treaty obligation. Obviously, nukes would be unnecessary if Russia wasn't so fascist.
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Russain troops were sent into Belarus and Kazakhstan to crush opposition to the pro-Putin leader. Obviously, the Russian military is a tool to protect Putin's power instead of a tool to protect Russia.
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@damnedmadman They study in English.
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@damnedmadman Most of the Africans are just students who want to go to Poland to fly home.
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@davoodoo8042 If Ukraine wanted Russia to leave, then what could they do? It's like Guantánamo Bay. Cuba wants the Americans gone, but they can't do anything because Cuba is bound by a treaty and the island doesn't have the power to expell the Americans.
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It wasn't the NATO pretext, then it's a fake claim about Nazis.
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Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014 for trying to get closer to the EU. Who really has an issue with growing European power?
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@master1941 I pretty sure that Ukraine rather Russia keep the money instead of bombing their schools and hospitals.
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@Raj-ul9my A) That isn't even relevant. The Soviet Union and Russia have both signed multiple treaties, saying they would respect a country's sovereign choice to join any alliance of their choosing. B) There was no reasonable chance that Ukraine could join NATO. Membership of NATO requires a country to have full control of its territory, so Ukraine would have had to surrender the Dombas and Crimea to Russia in order to join NATO. That wasn't ever going to happen.
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@chrisr.6638 So NATO should be held to hypothetical pinky promises, but Russia shouldn't be held to treaty obligations because Putin really wants to steal territory?
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@ロクアンドロルしかない Even you can't believe this nonsense. *The "coup" was the legislator impeaching the president after he ordered police snipers to fire on protesters. *Russia's little green men are very well documented, so trying to spin this as the Russia mobilizing forces to seize the local government is nonsensical. *The referendum was a joke. Staying in Ukraine isn't even an option *It is a crime in Russian-occupied Ukraine to express that the occupied land is part of Ukraine, so it is obvious what option people are allowed to express there.
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@nickk4895 That was the assumption after the fall of the Soviet Union. At one point, it was thought that Russia would join NATO too.
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Russia has a treaty obligations to respect Ukraine's borders and sovereignty in exchange for Ukraine giving up their nukes in the 90s.
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NATO countries that Putin sent troops into: 0 Non-NATO countries that Putin sent troops into: 4 (and I'm only counting Russia's neighbors).
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Mexico won't seek a defensive alliance, because it doesn't worry about its neighbor invading them. None of Russia's neighbors feel the same way.
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@16psyco America has had peace with their neighbors for over 100 years. That is historically unprecedented. All your references are dated with the exception of Venezuela who was never attacked by the United States even though Maduro overthrew the elected legislators and rig all the following elections. Meanwhile, Russia has invaded their neighbors three times since the start of the 21st century.
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@16psyco You can't even name a single case of war between America and Canada/Mexico in the last 100 years. Meanwhile, Russia is bombing hospitals in Ukraine today .
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