Election Year or Fear!

[Trickytreesreds]

What Maddy said was facts.

The West, as you put it, reacted to requests from Georgia and Ukraine in much the same way they reacted to requests from all the other former soviet satellites such as Romania, Hungary, Poland. Remember, it was the USSR/CCCP or whichever acronym you wish to give it, that dismantled its own area of influence, realising that many of the inhabitants of those satellites didn't want Russian dictatorship.

Are you suggesting that "the West" should have ignored their requests to join the freedom train?

The Russians withdrew and allowed German re unification on the promise of not 1 inch closer from NATO?
NATO didn't have to move 1 inch in any of those countries but did so after lying to Gorbachev.

[MadAmster]

The Russians withdrew and allowed German re unification on the promise of not 1 inch closer from NATO?
NATO didn't have to move 1 inch in any of those countries but did so after lying to Gorbachev.

So, NATO could prevent Georgia or Ukraine electing pro western governments who then ask to join?