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Doesn't he risk a 15-year prison sentence, by writing this? Pretty gutsy, to let it be published while he's still in Moscow.
Why would he? Literally nothing gutsy or illegalish.
There is nothing gutsy because it's nothing out of the ordinary.
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The problem is that Ukraine was not able to join NATO and is invaded anyway.
Ukraine joining NATO has been in the works for over a decade now and it is already closely involved with and cooperating with NATO including joint military drills. It's done everything short of being an official member: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations...
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I am not following your logic. Are you saying that the USA has done bad things in the past, therefore Russia should be allowed to indiscriminately murder Ukrainians? In my lifetime, I have never seen the USA do anything as evil as what Russia is doing right now.
I'm just saying it's quite rational to be concerned when a foreign nuclear missile alliance sets up shop on your doorstep. Putin has had many interviews where he has stated this is his primary concern and that the west isn't listening. The US almost started WW3 over exactly that same thing in the not so distance past during the cuban missile crisis. We get mad when Russia interferes with US-elections with a few onlin…
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I'm just saying it's quite rational to be concerned when a foreign nuclear missile alliance sets up shop on your doorstep. Putin has had many interviews where he has stated this is his primary concern and that the west isn't listening. The US almost started WW3 over exactly that same thing in the not so distance past during the cuban missile crisis. We get mad when Russia interferes with US-elections with a few onlin…
If it were up to me, I’d disband Russia entirely (too much polarizing history). I’d charter it as a constitutional democracy but remove its right to a standing army. The purpose of Russia should be to increase the happiness of its citizens and protect their welfare, not keep them under the iron boot of some mafioso tyrant so he can pursue his mad dreams.
However note how aggressive a stance that is. NATO is supposed to be a defensive organization but with the charter/purpose you suggest, it is rational for Putin and Xi to fear US/NATO aggression and do whatever it takes to fight its expansion. It is very much a threat to their survival, and the existence of their countries as they know it.
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mathematics, science, and history are not the only subjects worth teaching.
In truth, after raising four kids, it wouldn't break my heart if the schools reverted to just those three subjects. Plus a little reading and writing.
So then not just those three subjects