Worth every life and penny in the long run. Pay the money and keep the receipts. The bill will come due sooner or later for these profiteering countries.
If Ukrainians outside Donbas want to be European then de facto cede the Donbas to Russia and admit the rest of Ukraine to NATO. Same with Moldova.
What would be unreal, but in the current case highly likley, is if France, Hungary, and Turkey all approved it but Trump was the holdout toad...
The law would be changed if that was offered to Ukraine. Based on what you and others have posited, its the only path to survival for Ukraine from what I can tell...
Giving up territory, even if temporarily, is the only path of survival for Ukraine. NATO membership for a smaller country...
I tell Zelensky to surrender all territories East of the Dipre and fastrack annex all the remaining Western Ukraine in NATO (and annex Moldova as well in the process). When there is a future conflict between Russia and NATO, strategic discussions can be had about retaking the lost provinces...
I suspect that if Putin takes all of Ukraine there will be a genocide of Ukranians in the offing. He will practically dare NATO to come in to stop their eradication. And Hungary will be the holdout vote in NATO preventing it from moving in unison to stop Putin.
Would it be possible for NATO forces to set up a defense wall in Ukraine that would essentially stop Russian advance then allow Ukraine to initiate offensive actions with that backstop in attempt to drive out Russia? I think it would be better for NATO to take the fight to Russia on non-NATO...
Well, from everything I have read and encountered personally, I would say their reputation as self-absorbed is well earned...
And you know whether you did it or not, if you are in charge you get stuck with the blame. The Boomers have had a strangle hold on our economy and government for over...
I will take it a step further. Why are the same drugs offered for our pets or livestock at 1/10 of the price?
For most anything, if you are an American, it's manifest destiny for you to pay more for anything and ultimately our government to pay more aka our deficit. American consumers are...
Lets see we all thought when we could get the Boomer voters out of the way we would maybe have a chance transitioning leadership of the country to a more sane equitable younger leadership and voting bloc. At the prospect of this happening,
- Boomer Republicans sold out their party to Trump,
-...
The same way you do with teaching your kids to say no to alcohol, tobacco, porn, drugs, unprotected sex, etc.
If you dont want your son looking at porn, you dont leave Playboys and Hustlers laying around...
Some stuff in life, guns included, ought to be hard to get until the appropriate age...
I dont know without knowing its governing structure. From what I can tell its a bandaid on something that needs to be blown up. And it sounds like its rule structure was written on a napkin...
I have not seen anybody want to undertake the work to form a new league. The is working about as...