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  • If you predict that Russia won't invade Ukraine in the near future you may indeed be proven right, but it doesn't make you clever. It just means things didn't work out that way – for now.
    And claiming you somehow can see through it all, that Putin's foreign aggression is only a game he plays with the West, makes you kind of a dick IMO. That makes light of the ~ 15,000 killed in the war in eastern Ukraine, and the ~ 200 killed in Georgia.

    Yes, Putin is constantly keeping the West in mind, and has proven adept at calculating our reactions, but his nasty policy towards his neighbours is fully home grown and would set the agenda pretty much regardless of NATOs moves (or lack there of).

  • I took away his point being that it's not necessarily and saying that we need a more proactive approach.

    Got to say that hitting Russian offshore wealth has been something of a hobby horse of mine for a long time now. So I'm probably just gassed by someone with a name airing my pub views.

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