Reagan: You won, the Wall is gone

[August1991]

Kennedy put a man on the moon.

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I am tired of leftist Americans trying to fix the world.

From Clinton to Hollywood. 

[Michael Hardner]

6 hours ago, August1991 said:

Kennedy put a man on the moon.

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I am tired of leftist Americans trying to fix the world.

From Clinton to Hollywood. 

Me too, they should focus on fixing America, ie. The United States of.

[myata]

You've got to translate: he calls that standing up to aggressive, brutal tyrants. Why wouldn't you just shut down your eyes and brain and pretend they don't exist (works for him)? Problem solved, instantly.

Imagine how great that would have worked in the 1940s, with virtually unchallenged, Hitler taking Britain and USSR (without massive assistance a done deal but he wouldn't remember) and then - going all Gandhi or helping his eastern buddy to take Pacific islands one by one? Easy to guess but he wouldn't.

Imagine letting Putin have his wish a year back - where would he turn next? NATO is "fixing the world" of course, but wait till Putin takes half of Europe and gangs up with China, Iran and North Korea. Would be so much fun "fixing your problems" see? Btw, keep nodding Michael, so smart of you.

Edited March 31 by myata

[Nationalist]

On 3/31/2023 at 6:20 AM, myata said:

Imagine letting Putin have his wish a year back - where would he turn next? NATO is "fixing the world" of course, but wait till Putin takes half of Europe and gangs up with China, Iran and North Korea. Would be so much fun "fixing your problems" see? Btw, keep nodding Michael, so smart of you.

Excuse me but...

When did Putin "wish" to take half a Europe?

[myata]

18 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

When did Putin "wish" to take half a Europe?

You forgot. Just barely a year ago, before the fiasco in Ukraine, Putin told NATO to pull back from the Eastern Europe. And when and if Russia's neighbors are weak and defenseless, what happens to them, like all of those? Never noticed?

[Nationalist]

30 minutes ago, myata said:

You forgot. Just barely a year ago, before the fiasco in Ukraine, Putin told NATO to pull back from the Eastern Europe. And when and if Russia's neighbors are weak and defenseless, what happens to them, like all of those? Never noticed?

Pull back from Eastern Europe...in which language does that mean...'we are going to invade'?

NATO was never supposed to expand to Eastern Europe...according to the Russians. And while I'm quite sure that's not completely accurate, I'm equally quite sure what we hear and read from our side, is also not completely accurate.

That's called "critical thinking". You should try it.

 

[myata]

10 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Pull back from Eastern Europe...in which language does that mean...'we are going to invade'?

In Putin's of course. In Russia's. Happens all the time but you forgot. Putin was on a quest to "liberate" all "Russian-speaking" people wherever they happen to be. Interested to translate that into human language?

10 hours ago, Nationalist said:

NATO was never supposed to expand to Eastern Europe...

Can't stop repeating Putin's talking points? Living next door to a violent psycho with a mile-long record of invasions and abuse, you "never supposed to call the police". Right, take the psycho's (a fact of reality) word for that.

[Nationalist]

9 hours ago, myata said:

In Putin's of course. In Russia's. Happens all the time but you forgot. Putin was on a quest to "liberate" all "Russian-speaking" people wherever they happen to be. Interested to translate that into human language?

Can't stop repeating Putin's talking points? Living next door to a violent psycho with a mile-long record of invasions and abuse, you "never supposed to call the police". Right, take the psycho's (a fact of reality) word for that.

I live in Toronto. So I do live "next door to a violent psycho with a mile-long record of invasions and abuse".

You're making things up now.

[myata]

6 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

So I do live "next door to a violent psycho with a mile-long record of invasions and abuse".

Again, you forget. A short memory syndrome. Same kind of arguments were made before. Not our business. I live in Toronto. Next Hitler gangs up with a few baddies, takes Europe and China, develops nukes and all of a sudden it all looks very different. Toronto isn't a ticket to eternal bliss and nirvana anymore. In a snap, bang. Memory is such a funny thing.

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[Nationalist]

1 minute ago, myata said:

Again, you forget. A short memory syndrome. Same kind of arguments were made before. Not our business. I live in Toronto. Next Hitler gangs up with a few baddies, takes Europe and China, develops nukes and all of a sudden it all looks very different. In a snap, bang. Memory is such a funny thing.

Lying is such a funny thing too.

[myata]

13 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Lying is such a funny thing too

You must know some about it. And to who would you be trying to explain it, look I'm here in a faraway nothing minding my own business, not meaning anything to anyone? To Hitler? To Putin? Xi? With two tanks that can be started, maybe and the States mining their own business as instructed? Let's see how that works out, wanna try?

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[Nationalist]

53 minutes ago, myata said:

You must know some about it. And to who would you be trying to explain it, look I'm here in a faraway nothing minding my own business, not meaning anything to anyone? To Hitler? To Putin? Xi? With two tanks that can be started, maybe and the States mining their own business as instructed? Let's see how that works out, wanna try?

Yes. I've been saying all along, this is none of our business. We need to stay the hell out of it.

[myata]

1 hour ago, Nationalist said:

I've been saying all along, this is none of our business.

Sure. To Hitlers, Putins and Xis you'll say just that. And then we'll see. Memory syndrome.

[Nationalist]

7 hours ago, myata said:

Sure. To Hitlers, Putins and Xis you'll say just that. And then we'll see. Memory syndrome.

LA LA Land. Try living in reality.

[myata]

5 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Try living in reality.

Yes this is the reality that you folks forget. Easy. Yes there were people like you back then and they said the same things, probably literally, and here's the take: these several decades of relative calm and prosperity we in the West experienced, happened only because those people, like you did not prevail back then. It all could have been very different now.

But the memory is short. Would you roll it again, let's see what happens!

[Nationalist]

9 hours ago, myata said:

Yes this is the reality that you folks forget. Easy. Yes there were people like you back then and they said the same things, probably literally, and here's the take: these several decades of relative calm and prosperity we in the West experienced, happened only because those people, like you did not prevail back then. It all could have been very different now.

But the memory is short. Would you roll it again, let's see what happens!

You sure work hard to candy coat crap. But it's just candy coated crap.

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[myata]

18 hours ago, Nationalist said:

But it's just candy coated crap.

Of course it is. You just have run out of arguments.

[Dougie93]

On 4/1/2023 at 2:47 PM, Nationalist said:

NATO was never supposed to expand to Eastern Europe...

actually, the the 1949 Washington Treaty clearly states a mandate to expand east as necessary

NATO Article 10 ;

The Parties may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area to accede to this Treaty. Any State so invited may become a Party to the Treaty by depositing its instrument of accession with the Government of the United States of America. The Government of the United States of America will inform each of the Parties of the deposit of each such instrument of accession.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm

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[Contrarian]

10 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

actually, the the 1949 Washington Treaty clearly states a mandate to expand east as necessary

NATO Article 10 ;

The Parties may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area to accede to this Treaty. Any State so invited may become a Party to the Treaty by depositing its instrument of accession with the Government of the United States of America. The Government of the United States of America will inform each of the Parties of the deposit of each such instrument of accession.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm

• The 1949 Washington Treaty, which established NATO, does not contain any mandate to expand eastward. Its primary purpose was to provide collective defense against external threats to the member countries.
• Correct Here -> Article 10 of the Treaty outlines the process for other European countries to join NATO, but this requires unanimous agreement among the existing members and is based on the principles of the Treaty and the potential new member's ability to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area.
• While NATO has expanded its membership to include several Eastern European countries since the end of the Cold War, this was done through the process outlined in Article 10 and with the unanimous agreement of existing members. It was not a result of any mandate to expand eastward in the original Treaty.

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[Dougie93]

On 4/1/2023 at 2:47 PM, Nationalist said:

. . . according to the Russians.

Russian claims are completely ahistorical nonsense

the Warsaw Pact then the Soviet Union itself : collapsed of its own accord

NATO had nothing to do with it

NATO was in fact caught completely off guard by it

the Supreme Soviet met under the presiding General Secretary Gorbachev

and that Soviet then voted itself out of existence

nobody forced them to do that, they are the ones who voted to bring themselves down

[Dougie93]

14 minutes ago, Contrarian said:

• The 1949 Washington Treaty, which established NATO, does not contain any mandate to expand eastward. Its primary purpose was to provide collective defense against external threats to the member countries.
• Correct Here -> Article 10 of the Treaty outlines the process for other European countries to join NATO, but this requires unanimous agreement among the existing members and is based on the principles of the Treaty and the potential new member's ability to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area.
• While NATO has expanded its membership to include several Eastern European countries since the end of the Cold War, this was done through the process outlined in Article 10 and with the unanimous agreement of existing members. It was not a result of any mandate to expand eastward in the original Treaty.

the Cold War was waged to liberate Eastern Europe from the Soviets

the Soviets were the evil empire, we were out to destroy that empire and liberate the Warsaw Pact members

nobody ever promised the Soviets nor the Russians that we would not expand into their "buffer zone"

quite the opposite, that was the whole point of the war, that was the mission

[Contrarian]

18 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

the Cold War was waged to liberate Eastern Europe from the Soviets

the Soviets were the evil empire, we were out to destroy that empire and liberate the Warsaw Pact members

nobody ever promised the Soviets nor the Russians that we would not expand into their "buffer zone"

quite the opposite, that was the whole point of the war, that was the mission

My position is that the expansion of NATO was not imposed on any country, but rather a voluntary decision made by countries seeking membership in the alliance. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact created a power vacuum in Europe, and some former Warsaw Pact members chose to join NATO as a way to enhance their security, given the past actions of the KGB in the region. Same as others. This is why Finland today is joining the alliance, is my estimation, nobody wants to live under the KGB, even if in 2023, they wear Armani suits. 

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[Dougie93]

5 minutes ago, Contrarian said:

My position is that the expansion of NATO was not imposed on any country,

then you are debating with a strawman

because I never said that any country was forced to join NATO

I simply pointed out that Article 10 was a mandate to expand NATO to any European country deemed worthy

since the vast majority of those countries were to the east of the Inner German Border

that was an inherent mandate written into the 1949 treaty, to expand east as that expansion became viable

[Nationalist]

4 hours ago, myata said:

Of course it is. You just have run out of arguments.

On the contrary. I have the same argument as always. I don't have to make shit up that way.

[Contrarian]

9 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

then you are debating with a strawman

because I never said that any country was forced to join NATO

I simply pointed out that Article 10 was a mandate to expand NATO to any European country deemed worthy

since the vast majority of those countries were to the east of the Inner German Border

that was an inherent mandate written into the 1949 treaty, to expand east as that expansion became viable

I understand your point about Article 10 being a mandate for NATO expansion, but it's important to note that this expansion was not forced upon any country. Each country made a voluntary decision to seek NATO membership as a means to enhance their security, particularly in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. While the treaty did provide for the expansion of NATO, it was not the only factor driving the expansion. The changing geopolitical landscape of Europe at the time also played a significant role in the decision-making process.

---> Also not sure why @Nationalist is liking my post. Is actually worst for you, the one that is on vacation in California, countries joined NATO voluntarily and the European continent has a strong Pro-NATO commitment. In a short time, the leader of NATO will step down and be replaced by someone else. Term limits. The key to any healthy organisation. 

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