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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Or we could escalate with a psychopath sabre rattling with his finger on the button, and doing the precise opposite of what he has said for decades not to do and to which the "west" has collectively and continually done for decades.
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Aren't you kind of conceding that Putin is bluffing here?
Ukraine joining NATO puts Putin in the bind that you see the West in now - does he really want to mess with a country protected by Article 5, and it would be nice to flip the script that way.