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Originally Posted by Olefin
If he does take the Crimea you can kiss goodbye any US military drawdown - he might as well just make an official announcement that the Cold War is back - and there are a lot of countries that would see a resurgent expansionist Russia as very bad news - this isnt a couple of small areas in a country that barely matters - taking back the Crimea is something that will be a game changer with US relations with them
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Don't disagree with any of that.
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Originally Posted by Olefin
and if he does then the Ukraine will join NATO for sure - lets see how that helps US Russian relations get even colder
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I think the Ukraine had already stated its intention to join NATO and NATO had responded by saying both Ukraine and Georgia would be welcome as members
at some unspecified future date
See here from 2008 (Paragraph 23)
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-BE92F...texts_8443.htm
And here from 2009 (Paragraph 29)
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/...e=pressrelease
So again, don't disagree with you but NATO doesn't seem to be in any great rush over the matter...