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Junior Chimp
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« on: March 09, 2014, 04:02:52 PM » |
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If Ukraine were a member of NATO, Russia would never do what it is doing in Crimea...which is why they are doing it now. Putin was hoping to bring Ukraine into his "Eurasian Union" but now he sees a risk of Ukraine joining the EU and/or NATO sometime in the future and so he is taking what he can now before it is too late. In fact I suspect that he would rather keep Crimea as a disputed territory as that will prevent Ukraine from ever joining NATO.
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