NATO bolstered its presence in the region in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    351·
    1 month ago

    So… the grade school bully (with a reputation for lying) is promising he’ll only stop punching your friend IF you close your eyes and put your hands behind your back. Hmm.

  • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    And because of what is happening in Ukraine the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) won’t want to lose their NATO membership. So it’s just again an empty demand.

  • helvetpuli@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    How would that even work? Would Estonia have to station its own (NATO) forces in Finland?

    Would Lithuania and Latvia have to do basic training in Poland?

    It’s obviously not serious.

  • vga@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    So Russia, and Russia alone, wants to continue the war. Not exactly new information but gotcha. I guess Putin has like 3-4 years to go until Democrats win pretty much everything in USA and the west is then back to normalcy.

    But hey, I guess the bright side is that he might die extremely painfully before even that.

    In the meanwhile, I think the west should be putting significant resources into instigating a revolution in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Communist, liberal, centrist, conservatist, I don’t care. Just split up that shit. And this time when Russian state breaks up, don’t let them keep their earlier status in UN and give them a similar deal regarding nuclear weapons as Ukraine was given.

  • Johannes Jacobs@lemmy.jhjacobs.nlEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    We should give Russia some of its own medicine. We move out, promise to not move back in, then later on break that promise.

    It’s the only language they understand.

    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      No no no. Promise to move out, don’t move out, blame Putin for not ending the war in Ukraine because you were totally going to move out.

    • Hirom@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      I doubt countries sharing a border with Ukraine or Russia would want to take that risk, but let’s ses how these countries reply, if they even bother to.

  • Quittenbrot@feddit.orgEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    F*** off from Crimea and the other occupied territories in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, also leave Belarus and we might think about it.

  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    Yeah and I won’t stop eating this delicious chocolate until my cat starts speaking German. See, we can all make insane demands to keep doing something.