Russia's Invasion of Ukraine (Official Thread)

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Europe is tooling up something serious.

Big shift in EU/US relations the last few years. US has wanted them to increase military budgets for years but bc EU generally showed up whenever US asked (whether troops or money) and NATO pact was airtight...it never became a major issue. That changed fundamentally when trump came in deliberately undermining NATO. You know how once something has happened once, even if you repair, the memory lives on and continues to affect the future? Europeans now will always have in the back of their mind the possibility that some future US president will abandon NATO and it's responsibilities. No president had ever undermined NATO prior to trump. This is their way of making sure they're less reliant on US security umbrella (which is actually not great for US bc it's in our interest for them to need us) but at the same time throw us some dollars to let us know we're still cool.
 

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There is going to be some regime change, one way or another and they're going to dare somebody to have a problem with it.
Big shift in EU/US relations the last few years. US has wanted them to increase military budgets for years but bc EU generally showed up whenever US asked (whether troops or money) and NATO pact was airtight...it never became a major issue. That changed fundamentally when trump came in deliberately undermining NATO. You know how once something has happened once, even if you repair, the memory lives on and continues to affect the future? Europeans now will always have in the back of their mind the possibility that some future US president will abandon NATO and it's responsibilities. No president had ever undermined NATO prior to trump. This is their way of making sure they're less reliant on US security umbrella (which is actually not great for US bc it's in our interest for them to need us) but at the same time throw us some dollars to let us know we're still cool.
Gotta be.

They're gonna sign off on some new guy thats just as right wing but just moving beyond that Soviet shyt. Its time. Putin is a cold warrior.
Putin got Europe looking p*ssy right now.

It's not gonna go down the way he thinks.
 
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