16-03-2022, 17:50
The majority of Russian people believe the garbage and distortion pumped into their homes by the state media is the truth. They aren't dozy. Their lives are controlled. Their vision is restricted by carefully constructed blinkers, which they have never been without. Like most people in the world they want to live their lives fairly happily, raise a few kids, pet a dog, have enough food to keep them happy and somewhere warm to sleep ........ They're told they are having a Special Operation against Ukrainian xxxx then that's what is going on and even if they have friends in Ukraine telling them different they mostly refuse to believe it. Because that would destroy their world.
The trouble with NATO's expansionism is that although its aim is to keep more of the free world free and free from attack, the bigger NATO gets the less able it is to act. One Russian toenail on NATO soil, thirty countries are then committed to involvement - that's a world war. So all NATO can do against Russia's firepower is threaten. Add Finland to NATO you get another line of defence against Russia and one more potential threat in Russia's eyes. Every step to make ourselves more safe, makes us unsafe by that exact same amount.
The trouble with NATO's expansionism is that although its aim is to keep more of the free world free and free from attack, the bigger NATO gets the less able it is to act. One Russian toenail on NATO soil, thirty countries are then committed to involvement - that's a world war. So all NATO can do against Russia's firepower is threaten. Add Finland to NATO you get another line of defence against Russia and one more potential threat in Russia's eyes. Every step to make ourselves more safe, makes us unsafe by that exact same amount.