President ~~Camacho~~ Putin: Shit. I know shit's bad right now, with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course Putin blames it on NATO aggressively doing nothing, and Ukraine wanting to join EU.
So Russia had to defend itself against all that! Now NATO has borders right up to Russia through Sweden and Finland as a result of Putins idiocy.

And In fact Putin recently announced that the Russians should prepare for war, as in things are getting tough now.
And who the fuck else is to blame for that? If you have 2 brain-cells to add 2 and 2 together?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

What I find funny is that right now, because of the war, Ukraine legally can't join NATO simply because there is a provision that blocks attempts from an already at war nation to join NATO.

HOWEVER...if putin never tried this shit at all to begin with, Sweden and Finland wouldn't have joined. Ukraine had an agreement with russia to not join NATO as part of their deal from the early 90s when they gave up their nukes. Now, literally the second the war ends, you KNOW Ukraine will be welcomed into NATO with open arms.

The end result means that this war will have directly resulted in THREE new nations joining NATO that otherwise probably wouldn't have even attempted it.