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<blockquote data-quote="Exfarmer" data-source="post: 7515090" data-attributes="member: 1951"><p>The West has deliberately left Ukraine out of NATO as they knew very well that Russia would not like such action in its soft underbelly.</p><p>The Russians retook Crimea near ten years ago but this seems to have escaped some peoples notice. There was no populist desire in Crimea except from the few remaining Russians who had been planted by Stalin in the late 40’s after he deported the local population mainly Tartars, on mass to the Gulags ( concentration/ forced labour camps to the uninitiated ).</p><p>When the Ukraine was given its independence in the 1990’s it had a massive military arsenal and the bulk of the Soviet nuclear forces and the Russian federation could never have contemplated fighting a battle with them , but they have run down these stocks and not updated meaning they are relatively weak to the Russia today wghich is still spending very heavily on its military.</p><p>These spending patterns are very typical of democracies and dictatorships and is reflected across the world. In democracies people demand social justice , health and welfare.</p><p>People in dictatorships would like just the same so dictators use a combination of force to suppress them and jingoistic military adventures to persaude them that now is not the time for reform.</p><p>In the meantime the leaders steal the treasury for their own hedonistic lifestyles</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Exfarmer, post: 7515090, member: 1951"] The West has deliberately left Ukraine out of NATO as they knew very well that Russia would not like such action in its soft underbelly. The Russians retook Crimea near ten years ago but this seems to have escaped some peoples notice. There was no populist desire in Crimea except from the few remaining Russians who had been planted by Stalin in the late 40’s after he deported the local population mainly Tartars, on mass to the Gulags ( concentration/ forced labour camps to the uninitiated ). When the Ukraine was given its independence in the 1990’s it had a massive military arsenal and the bulk of the Soviet nuclear forces and the Russian federation could never have contemplated fighting a battle with them , but they have run down these stocks and not updated meaning they are relatively weak to the Russia today wghich is still spending very heavily on its military. These spending patterns are very typical of democracies and dictatorships and is reflected across the world. In democracies people demand social justice , health and welfare. People in dictatorships would like just the same so dictators use a combination of force to suppress them and jingoistic military adventures to persaude them that now is not the time for reform. In the meantime the leaders steal the treasury for their own hedonistic lifestyles [/QUOTE]
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