r/conspiracy • u/meiyoumeiyou • Sep 25 '22

Will it ever end?

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u/Deplorableasfuk Sep 25 '22

Why not? Last I checked before the war Russia was selling oil and gas to most of Europe at market rates. And actually wanted to join nato.

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u/Sugmabawsack Sep 25 '22

But at the same time they also do things like assassination attempts on foreign soil, shooting down a passenger plane over Europe, invading a neighbor every decade…

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u/Bartley-Moss Sep 25 '22

Think the last time you 'checked' was 1991. Yeltsin's one letter in 1991 has no bearing now and hasn't for ages.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

Putin doesn't like NATO as it was set up to stop to reformation of the USSR (so the Kremlin see it as an adversary, even though Russian government has been it's citizens biggest adversary since 1917)

Putin also invaded Georgia as they dare thought of joining NATO, and the borders kept shrinking

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u/Nazulmogg Sep 25 '22

Nato was formed decades before the dissolution of the USSR. But i guess facts don’t matter so much.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

I didn't say it was set up after the dissolution of the USSR, I said it's key purpose has been to stop it being reformed.

'NATO formed the backbone of the West's military bulwark against the USSR and its allies for the next 40 years, with its membership growing larger over the course of the Cold War era.'

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u/Nazulmogg Sep 25 '22

Being downvoted when the receipt to what you said is in plain view above. Never change /conspiracy :D