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Originally Posted by Hugh
They’ll probably keep quiet about it, as critics of the regime seem to accidentally fall out of windows…
If Putin is successful with the invasion of Ukraine, it will be Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Georgia next…
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Didn't Russia invade Georgia when the World was distracted by the Global Financial Crisis to dissuade it from becoming a NATO member and too friendly to the West?
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are all NATO members so I can't see them being next.
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Originally Posted by Damien
I think this has been 10 years - 15 years even - in the making. Iraq seems to have destroyed America's confidence on the world stage and each subsequent President after Bush has been increasingly isolationist as has the American public. Even now the sentiment in America seems to be 'why is this anything to do with us?'. There is even a ******* on Fox News having a go at what actions the American Government is taking because Putin is not their problem.
People have long had a go at America being the 'world police' but in the absence of any police then thugs and gangsters seize the opportunity.
As for Britain we, and other European NATO nations, need to wake up and take more of this responsibility on for ourselves rather than look to America.
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Yes, the US is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't intervene!