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<blockquote data-quote="dudders" data-source="post: 8021794" data-attributes="member: 19026"><p>I may be wrong, as usual, but it seems to me that the expansion of the EU and NATO right up to the border of a notoriously sensitive state is very much tweaking the tail of the tiger and asking for trouble. I remember the USA's reaction to the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba... The only defence to that being that both those organisations are pretty dedicated to peace and the keeping of it. Nonetheless it would have been diplomatic to have left a buffer zone between us and Russia into which we would not expand. </p><p></p><p>There was always the chance that Russia and the West could have become aligned and mutually co-operative - things have actually been gently heading that way for some years. Extreme 'socialist' states have to burn out in the end because they just don't work - it was only a matter of a bit more time with Russia. It's an absolute tragedy that all the progress made towards reconciliation and co-operation has now been trashed.</p><p></p><p>I think it's imperative in the long run that Putin's course of action is defeated eventually, by whatever means. This because China is watching very closely and has far greater ambitions for expansion than Russia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dudders, post: 8021794, member: 19026"] I may be wrong, as usual, but it seems to me that the expansion of the EU and NATO right up to the border of a notoriously sensitive state is very much tweaking the tail of the tiger and asking for trouble. I remember the USA's reaction to the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba... The only defence to that being that both those organisations are pretty dedicated to peace and the keeping of it. Nonetheless it would have been diplomatic to have left a buffer zone between us and Russia into which we would not expand. There was always the chance that Russia and the West could have become aligned and mutually co-operative - things have actually been gently heading that way for some years. Extreme 'socialist' states have to burn out in the end because they just don't work - it was only a matter of a bit more time with Russia. It's an absolute tragedy that all the progress made towards reconciliation and co-operation has now been trashed. I think it's imperative in the long run that Putin's course of action is defeated eventually, by whatever means. This because China is watching very closely and has far greater ambitions for expansion than Russia. [/QUOTE]
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