ranger_syntax 3,715 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 18 minutes ago, Bill said: I'll always just think of you as the Snide Sniper. Every forum has one, you are ours. Feel free to discuss the topic. In particular you should tell us how you reconcile your comments with the Monroe Doctrine and N.A.T.O. intervention in Libya. If you leave it as it is then it just makes you look ignorant 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,693 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 4 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said: Feel free to discuss the topic. In particular you should tell us how you reconcile your comments with the Monroe Doctrine and N.A.T.O. intervention in Libya. If you leave it as it is then it just makes you look ignorant When you spend your entire contribution making snide comments and studiously avoiding exposing any original thought, you're hardly in a position to dictate what others should post. I think I'll pass, however ignorant you think that makes me. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo79 13,355 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 1 hour ago, ranger_syntax said: Ever heard of the Monroe Doctrine? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7 5,009 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Preventing neo-nazism and protecting ethnic Russians might justify unilateral action by Russia but I wonder why it didn’t make a diplomatic case first in the UN for example. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 59 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said: No answers. Quite a surprise. A sermon full of holes and a captain without anything to fill them,......is always liable to go on the attack, to distract from a lack of answers #nowtchanges 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7 5,009 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 39 minutes ago, buster. said: A sermon full of holes and a captain without anything to fill them I’m afraid the literary prize deservedly won this morning is now forfeit. Couldn’t make that one out, buster. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,693 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, compo said: One of the reasons for this little skirmish was the eagerness of Ukraine to join the EU and NATO therefore bringing them right up to the Russian border the one thing Putin does not want , and he's going to have to take action soon as i have said before there is no point in having nukes to just sit in storage . Nato was already right up to the Russian border since 1949 Edited June 19, 2022 by Bill 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 4 hours ago, compo said: One of the reasons for this little skirmish was the eagerness of Ukraine to join the EU and NATO therefore bringing them right up to the Russian border the one thing Putin does not want , and he's going to have to take action soon as i have said before there is no point in having nukes to just sit in storage . It goes way back before Putin. Gorbachev/Yeltsin were promised this type of thing wouldn't happen. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forlanssister 3,048 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 5 hours ago, buster. said: It goes way back before Putin. Gorbachev/Yeltsin were promised this type of thing wouldn't happen. Were they? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,715 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 13 hours ago, buster. said: It goes way back before Putin. Gorbachev/Yeltsin were promised this type of thing wouldn't happen. 8 hours ago, forlanssister said: Were they? https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16117-document-06-record-conversation-between A conversation between Gorbachev and James Baker. The interesting part is on page 5. Gorbachev never got an agreement in writing and, if I remember correctly, the contents of the conversation were denied. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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