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This is getting scary. So far, Russia has bitten off a piece of Georgia, wiped out Georgia's navy, taken Crimea, wiped out Ukraine's navy, and has an ongoing war with Ukraine. And they got away with all of it.

Ukraine thought it had a security guarantee from the US and the UK.[1] That's why they gave up the nuclear weapons they had left over from their USSR days. When the crunch came, they weren't defended by the US and the UK.

So far, Russia hasn't attacked a NATO member country. So far.

This could lead to WWIII.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...

parent Animats 10 years ago

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