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  1. Just how much pain are we going to have to take from the Russian President's political spankings he keeps giving everyone and every country who won't go along with his planned military exercise i.e., assault on the Ukraine? Putin either has forgotten or chooses not to accept what his country has already agreed to, but he should remember that under international law that was signed by Moscow, all the treaties say that sovereign countries get to choose what alliances sovereign countries belong to. Treaties like the UN Charter was signed by Russia. The 1975 Helsinki agreement was signed by the Soviet Union. The 1990 Charter of Paris for a new Europe was also signed by the Soviet Union. The 1997 NATO Russia Founding Act was equally signed by the Russian Government. All those documents were signed by either the Soviet Regime or the Russian regime, which is the legally recognized international inheritor i.e., successor of the Soviet State. The fact is those agreements are still in place and they clearly state that sovereign countries can freely choose their foreign policy and what alliances they want to join. For the President of Russia to warn western nations not to help the Ukrainians defend themselves is pure hypocrisy and using energy cutoffs to countries like Germany is insulting to the free world writ large.
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