If Finland and Sweden show the same intention to join NATO like Ukraine, will Putin start other wars in those nations? Will he use the reason to denazification in those nations to legalize his war in his distorted perspective?
Putin is trying to scare western countries from forming an alliance against Russia. He is intentionally being ambiguous to scare NATO and Sweden and Finland, and to not put himself in a corner by having to attack these countries or lose credibility if he doesn't. Compare this to Biden who is outright saying that he will avoid a conflict at all costs.
Putin is doing the same thing with respect to the supply lines of weapons being sent to Ukraine. He is saying that weapons supply lines from Western countries into Ukraine are legitimate military targets. He is trying to scare the west out of helping Ukraine. Without the weapons the west is providing, Russia would have already won the war.
Agreed, the invasion is not related to nazi-jews-drugs blah blah shit. It may however not be related as much to NATO as it is with the status of Ukraine with the European Union and western Europe.
- Putin is not ambiguous at all, he is invading Ukraine and telling others to fear the same. Facts weight more than words.
- Western countries do not have any military alliance against Putin. NATO is defensive, not specific for Russia but for any other threats.
- If Putin targets any kind of "objective" in NATO soil, the can of worms is open to get retaliation which may end ... who knows where. I hope he is cunning enough to know that.
- Biden's position is not "avoid conflict at all costs". It is about not escalating, but it is not "no matter what", since even the international treaties would force him to intervene or break NATO.
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A year ago i considered passing through Ukraine. Did not take long to find out what kind of place it is and i've made shure to stay far away from it.
For which I am sure all Ukrainians thank you. You should have taken Putin to your trip.
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for NATO we would be too small and insignificant to start WW3.
The consequences of WW3 are unknown, but there may not be many to tell the story if things go wrong. The west has to help you win the war while making sure Putin has a way out other than WMD. To be honest, I do not agree on Zelensky's calling for measures that would throw more countries into the war (e.g. exclusion zone). That opens a can of worms that might destroy Ukraine beyond measure.
There is a solution to this war, the problem is that there is not a quick solution nor a humane solution to it, as I mentioned on several posts when the military aggression begun (other than Putin being removed from power). If you escalate you get a high chance of WMD, if you do nothing Ukraine might loose. The only option is to help the conflict be no longer viable economically or politically for Putin.
A different thing is how safe is going to feel Putin once the war ends. Hate will be strong for generations.
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One thing that Russia has had is outstanding psychological operations capabilities borrowed from the theater world. The 'West' has tried to emulate and/or just borrow talent from Putin's team. I continue to believe that even while at least some of the fighting is real, the outcome has already been agreed upon at the upper levels.
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The fact that the West does not look like having psy-ops does not mean these are not actually everywhere, starting by several media outlets. How do you think is possible that a bunch of armed guys stormed the Capitol? You think they were all insane or that they really had a reason to do so?
On regards to the outcome being agreed, I dissent. USA has pressed forward with economy and diplomacy to win the wills of the people of several countries that were previously under the USSR dominance. And there is no law against it and it is as per the free will of the citizens, it is simply that Putin cannot accept that and has decided to move this onto the military with his war of aggression.
You know the real looser of this war along with the people of Ukraine? The EU. No matter what, any war in Europe has the effect of making the US stronger and that is something Putin should have realised by now.
With Cuban missile crisis US pretty much set the precedent that "laws" don't really matter as long as country is facing existential threat. (Imagine what would happen to "free will" of poor Mexicans if they wanted to accept amazing trading terms from China in exchange for ability for China to place nukes on Mexican boarder with US.) 
