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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found some good articles with brief modern history of Russia and geography that are contributing to Putin’s violent invasion of a sovereign country of 40 million people under the pretext of protecting Russia ([b]NATO is a defense alliance not an aggressive military alliance[/b]) and “liberating” Ukraine from democracy.

The level of misinformation/ propaganda online, largely sponsored by the Kremlin, is frightening.

What resources are you using to discuss this dark hour in European history? [/quote]

NATO has invaded numerous countries. Please don't lie to your children.[/quote]

That is ridiculous … they are a defense alliance and have never perpetuated unjustified and premeditated aggression in the way Russia is doing …

Name one NATO led invasion.  Oh wait, you can’t as it has never happened … [/quote]

Ok, off the top of my head, Syria, Lybia, Iraq, Bosnia/Yugoslavia... In your mind, those were justified, but in Putin's mind this one is justified, so that is pretty much in the eye of the invader, so to speak.[/quote]

NATO has not invaded any of those countries.

You do realize that enforcing no fly zones, providing relief efforts and anti piracy measures to protect NATO member countries threatened by other countries are in no way equivalent to unprovoked invasions/ imperial land grabs from sovereign democratic countries dressed up as self defense and social cohesion exercises?

Although the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was present throughout the Cold War as the opposite to the Warsaw Pact, and conducted joint military exercises, no military operations took place

The organization now plays a prominent role in Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks in the United States invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty which deemed the attacks to be an external attack on all NATO members under the idea of collective defense. Aside from continuing efforts in Afghanistan NATO has participated in a wide range of roles including relief effort, counter-piracy, enforcing no-fly zones and naval blockades.[/quote]

those euphemisms might work for your power point presentations, but reality is that, in the past 20+ years, NATO has killed (bombed, starved etc) hundreds of thousands of people, many of them civilians. this, in addition to destroying tends of billions of dollar of infrastructure and creating political instability in numerous countries. that is what NATO is. [/quote]

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