Aristides

Hitler justified his invasion of Poland by claiming ethnic Germans were being persecuted by Poles. He had SS members dress up in Polish uniforms and attack a German radio station as the final provocation. Ring a bell?

Of course they can. NATO is a defensive alliance. They just wouldn't get any support from other NATO countries. As a matter of fact, it might result in another war with Greece, also a NATO member.

Well now the genius Putin has managed to get Finland and Sweden into NATO and when this is over, Ukraine will definitely be a NATO member. The US or NATO were not putting nukes into Ukraine like the Soviets were in Cuba. As a matter of fact, there are no nukes at all based in Eastern European NATO countries. Countries join NATO because they fear Russia, with good reason.

You really don't know what an agnostic is.

It isn't about placing blame, it's about acknowledging injustice. I don't feel personal responsibility but I do recognize it happened.

Because he is a monarch he is not a citizen of anywhere, a monarch just has subjects.

It's about the Russian army collapsing. In Ukraine. But hey, keep deflecting, it's all you got.

Still deflecting. What does that have to do with Ukraine? Putin’s oligarch buddies have robbed the Russian military blind and the high command has been replaced by yes men. What was at one time probably a highly competent military is now rotten from top to bottom and the grunts they send out to die aren’t buying it anymore. This weakness has been exposed by an army a tenth the size.

Most despots think they are infallible and eventually overreach. Putin is no different.

Them too.

Incompetence and the soldiers realizing they have been sol a lie. If you can get ten years for just saying this is a war, you are living in a police state.

Good question. Trudeau has no spine.

This many https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia#Russian_Federation_(1991–present)

Invade neighbouring country. When your invasion fails, use your failure as an excuse to use nuclear weapons.

Mr. Denial strikes again.

Ukraine has formally asked to join NATO. It won't happen till this is over but no one has a better reason.

You come across as pretty hatey yourself. No argument, just give it a label.

That's it, keep politicizing it. We are all responsible for letting this go on for nearly a century. BTW, everyone who disagrees with you is not a "lefty". Labels are just a lazy way of blowing them off.

Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia wanted a war. Stop blaming the victim.

I'm not the one refusing to take responsibility, those who are politicizing it are.

If you are so concerned about a world war, talk to your buddies in the Kremlin who started this war. You probable think Hitler's invasion of Poland was Poland's fault.

Illegal referendums that violate international law. I guess laws are an inconvenience for a guy who approves of the invading sovereign states and "democracy" at the point of a gun. Of course if Russia wanted a real referendum they could have asked for one presided over by the UN but the would never happen because REFERENDUMS HELD IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Sounds like a guy I would have a drink or two with.

So says a Kremlin bot.

A lot of them are. First ethnically cleanse, then put a gun to the head of any that remain and force them to vote the way you want in clear violation of international law. BTW, those grannies are real people who had the vote. Democracy Russian (and Nationalist) style given to you by the same people who would give you ten years in jail for calling this a war. How stupid can you be. NATO is a defensive alliance. It doesn't matter what the territorial ambitions of Hungary, Slovakia and Poland might be, the rest of NATO won't go to war to make them a reality.