Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Ukraine reportedly battling Russian troops on the outskirts of Kyiv | DW News" video.

@Piss-Poor-Infantry Please don't lie. Poland, Hungary and Czechia joined NATO in 1999. More than twenty years later, there still isn't a single nuke in any of the these countries. Your beloved Kremlin propagandists are making stuff up and you're parroting it. Why didn't Putin push for nuclear disarmament if nukes were the real issue? We could've gotten rid of the nukes aimed at us in Kaliningrad, too.
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@benyisg7633 Don't you think it would be problematic to hold a referendum about a war? If the country is subjected to an attack, like Ukraine is now, there's insufficient time and when the country is doing the attacking, like Russia, the referendum and the campaigning that precedes it sort of give the game away. You must be very young.
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@SwordOfTheSpirit-I- The problem is, Russia acting on its supposed national security concerns violates Ukraine's sovereignty. In other words, Russia's national security concerns equal aggression.
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@benyisg7633 I'd be surprised if any adult French person with a modicum of education doesn't know about Libya. French involvement in the fighting in Libya marked a turning point in WW2 and the restoration of French pride. It's important to note that the aerial bombing campaign in Libya had the UNSC's blessing. There was some mission creep, but it's a hard to sit idle when a dictator starts murdering his own people. During Gaddafi's rule, just about everyone had commercial dealings with Libya under the guise of Realpolitik. You seem to have a idealised vision of democracy. Direct democracy is, sadly, an illusion.
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@SwordOfTheSpirit-I- But Ukraine never threatened Russia's national security. A prosperous Ukraine threatens Putin's job security. Russians would start wondering why they can't enjoy the same level of prosperity. Eventually, their eyes would lock onto Putin.
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@gweejiahan9336 I'm afraid Max Ma x has a strong case that WW2 started with the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Japan's militarism prompted Western powers to stop providing crucial raw materials to Japan. Unable to feed its war machine, Japan attacked them, triggering the Pacific War. WW2 ended in Asia as well.
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@benyisg7633 So you are very young. Enough said.
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@benyisg7633 Yet you wrote that you're in school ;-) Actually, I had an Erasmus year in Rijsel, as we prefer to call the city. So yes, I have studied in France.
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@SwordOfTheSpirit-I- If US missiles were the issue, Putin could've proposed a nice tête-à-tête with Biden about nuclear disarmament. I fully understand why Putin was unwilling to take that route, because it would've transpired to one and all, even to you Putin fanboys, that NATO doesn't deploy nuclear weapons in any of its member countries that border Russia. Russia, on the other hand, keeps nuclear missiles in Kaliningrad, which borders two NATO members, Poland and Lithuania. Summa summarum, you're full of it.
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@SwordOfTheSpirit-I- NATO's shared nuclear deterrent in the form of 100 N61 gravity bombs is common knowledge. They're based in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey. None of those countries borders Russia. Moreover, Poland, Hungary and Czechia made up the first batch of East European countries to join NATO. Twenty years onward, there are no nuclear weapons in these countries. You blaming the US for non-transparency is irrelevant. It would not fly that their NATO partners were kept in the dark, or that their governments would keep the populace in the dark about undisclosed nuclear weapons on their soil. Indeed, Ukraine desperately wants to join NATO. Why? Because any treaties it may sign with Russia regarding Ukraine's territorial integrity aren't worth the paper they're written on. The UN Charter didn't stop Russia either. It seems only NATO can provide the security assurances that Ukraine needs.
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