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Old 02-19-2022, 09:54 AM   #309
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Why does Russia get to dictate what Ukraine does? Part of being a country is self-determination. If Ukraine wants to join something, sorry Putin, too bad, so sad. You don't get to invade them for that.
Because not accepting new members from the east was a condition of unification of Germany. As written in Spiegel article linked above. Putin has no right to tell Ukraine what to do - and he doesn't. He does, however, every right to demand NATO to honour that agreement.
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