Comments by "ThatHandsomeDevil08" (@thathandsomedevil0828) on "CaspianReport" channel.

@michaeldewitz1940 does it matter? Additional membership still means that NATO expands, which is a violation of its own charter and a provocation to the Russians. So again 1+1 still equals 2.
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@kevincrady2831 I looked it up and you are correct there is no written charter about eastward expansion only promises made as cited by declassified documents on the matter. So I stand corrected on that point, but at the same time I am dubious of the fact that NATO seems to ignore every act of good faith to keep the peace with the Russians. This is why the Russian-Ukraine war broke out and why we may have nuclear war fairly soon if the USA and NATO do not de-escalate matters.
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@michaeldewitz1940 we had the Cuban missile crisis so we know what happens when one major super power decides to expand into the sphere of influence of the other. If the USA can lose their minds over nukes in Cuba then it wouldn't be far off for Russia to do the same with NATO troops on its border via Ukraine. And you seem to be lock jawed about the real politik nature of things so let me ask you the following; Would we have had the current conflict if NATO hadn't sweet talked Ukraine into joining NATO? Would we even have any of these consternations if NATO remained with its original founding members? Or just outright disbanded? All NATO has done is provoke the Russians, remember that fact after the nukes are launched. As for the charter, I looked into it recently as someone else asked about it and found it not to exist. Gorbachev was assured by leaders of the time that NATO would not expand eastward as one of the conditions for the reunification of Germany. And from the current Ukraine Russia war it certainly looks like they never kept true to any of them. So NATO are out right liars it would seem. I somewhat blame Gorbachev for not trying to get any of our written down and ratified but again NATO really should have disbanded after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Rather the Spanish than the Chinese at this point.
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NATO has been expanding towards Russia's border for the past 30 years, they have always being doing something. The eastward expansion is a violation of their own charter.
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Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. Ethiopia clearly did not take notes.
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@David-gy6fv the economy is capitalistic, the government is socialist this is the truth and why people some how think that Scandinavian economies are socialist when they are not. It's the same with Vietnam, the economy is capitalist but the government itself remain communists. As such the economy can be considered as free market as it can get.
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