Germany stalling on sending tanks to Ukraine

@revenant what does a proxy war means?

@littlepuppywantanewlife on behalf

@revenant oh! I believe WWIII has already began.

@littlepuppywantanewlife ok

@revenant my gym coach is also moving to Canada and it fascinated me to look motivation and go to Canada. 🙂

@littlepuppywantanewlife they all do.

@littlepuppywantanewlife If the proxy war becomes truly unproxy, Canadians will be no safer than the US. The majority of Canadians live below this line:

@ElwoodBlues safe from whom

@revenant Your buddies in Moscow

@ElwoodBlues Russia wants to invade Canada ?

@revenant No

@ElwoodBlues explain

@revenant Hundreds of megatons of thermonuclear detonations targeting Chicago and Detroit. Prevailing winds west to east. Slow death by radiation poisoning.

@ElwoodBlues who is doing that

@revenant Your buddies in Moscow

@ElwoodBlues you are not saying aanything
you are going in circle on purpose

@revenant You're asking for a non-proxy war and I'm pointing out some of the consequences.

@ElwoodBlues British have planned and ruled wisely.

@littlepuppywantanewlife
It all comes down to being part of NATO and Ukraine is not part of NATO. If they were then the rest of Europe could join in.

@justanothername [quote]It all comes down to being part of NATO and Ukraine is not part of NATO.[/quote] Absolutely true for Europe. The USA is in a slightly different situation.

Putin, seems to want people to forget a three-way treaty known as the [i]1994 Budapest Memorandum.[/i]

Essentially, Ukraine agreed to give up all its nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange for safety from a U.S. or Russian invasion. Russia's invasion of Ukraine violates that treaty. And as a signatory to that 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the U.S. has a definite interest in righting Putin's current wrongs.

[quote]In the final version of the deal, Russia promised not to attack Ukraine. While the U.S. and the U.K. assured Ukraine they would aid if it was attacked by Russia, that promised aid did not guarantee military support like a NATO country would receive.

In 2009, Russia and the U.S. announced that the assurances in the Budapest Memorandum would continue to remain in effect in the future.
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https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/global-conflicts/ukraine-agreed-to-give-up-nukes-in-exchange-for-safety-from-russia-invasion-attack-budapest-memorandum-treaty/536-8748a51f-10ee-47f0-be30-b4088750ee44

In short, Russia promised [i]specifically[/i] NOT to invade Ukraine, and the U.S. promised [i]specifically[/i] to ASSIST Ukraine if the treaty were ever violated. And that's what the U.S. is doing now.

@ElwoodBlues You don’t need to explain that to me. I’m well aware of it. It’s been answered on here before. :)

The other thing I can’t work out is why Russia is talking about the need to attack Poland at this point in the war.