Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "Today Was Russia's Biggest Defeat So Far" video.

  1.  @crogeny  - Exactly. You'll notice that there's no meaningful date or timetable. At the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Georgia were told exactly what you wrote above followed by the caveat "someday". You know when "someday" comes, right? Then, that meaningless assertion was followed up by no meaningful action from NATO, ever, not in 2014, 2022, or the intervening years. NATO isn't even doing anything now, it's the individual countries doing their own things to help Ukraine. NATO wasn't interested in Ukraine as a member as an unofficial appeasement of Russia. Meanwhile NATO was stringing Ukraine along and blowing sunshine up Ukraine's butt.
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  2.  @crogeny  - Speaking of timetables, in 2008, Dubya was still sparring with Putin over who was actually head of a world power. Putin warned, told, Dubya not to invade Iraq for Iraq 2. Putin never got over the fact that the American cowboy considered Russia so toothless that America wouldn't heed Putin's warning. So, of course Dubya would urge NATO to do things, like talk up admitting Ukraine, that would follow the same grain of sidelining Putin's Russia. In 2009 Obama came to the White House and began the "Russian Reset". At that point, anything offensive to Russia ceased, including the US honoring its commitments under the Budapest Memorandum to protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine. So, again, you would be correct to argue that since the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine WAS being considered for NATO membership, "someday"....someday.
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  3. Putin's master plan to weaken NATO and the West while strengthening Russia is going exactly according to his plan.
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  4. Putin isn't going to be apprehended and certainly not tried and imprisoned. As much as Putin is copying Hitler, he's going to take himself out.
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  5. 5:06 the exact reason Ukraine and Georgia weren't considered for NATO membership when other former Soviet republics were is because they were an unofficial NATO appeasement of Russia. Ukraine wasn't being considered for NATO membership. Russia faces and faced no external threat from NATO or the West.
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