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NATO just helped kill a million Iraqis Thousands in Libya. Syria.
NATO is what NATO has been doing. I’m not going to defend their record.
No one's asking you to. Their record is our record. We're all aware of it. We're all ashamed of it where we should be and proud of it where we can be.
A million dead Iraqis don't make a million dead Ukranians okay.
NATO was formed to prevent Soviet encroachment on Europe. This is Soviet encroachment on Europe. When this is all said and done Russia might need to join the EU to save their economy.
Except after this, I can't imagine Europe accepting Russia, at least not Putin's Russia anyway. All well and good (sarcasm) because Putin can't imagine being part of Europe either...he will forever see himself as a tsar denied HIS birthright, absolute ownership of an Imperial Russian Empire, everything in it and every serf who walks on his land.
He's even famous for having a tsar's viewpoint on property ownership.
The fact that, as per Pugachev, Putin considers everything in Russia "to be his" might seem shocking, but it's important to note that the concept of property rights in Putin's Russia is rather different from that of the West.
"A prominent businessman ... said that Mr. Putin had eroded the very notion of property rights in Russia, even for those who displayed fealty. He said that Mr. Putin himself had described private ownership of strategic industries with the Russian word for "roost". "‘A chicken can exercise ownership of eggs, and it can get fed while it’s sitting on the egg,’ he said, ‘but it’s not really their egg,’†according to the New York Times.
