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Krystal and Saagar discuss allies pressing Biden to hasten the pathway for Ukraine to join NATO.
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Baltic states have waited in the bush since 1945 ( see their previous )..The Turks also have no intention of allowing UA membership. Even Sweden cant access the group ( Turks )..Sooner the better Nuland goes or Eastern Europe will burn..
Baltic states know that Russia don't have enough nukes to strike them after they strike USA. So they are pretty safe – they aren't worth striking with nukes. In potential conflict all nukes would be flying to USA, Britain, and maybe France.
Saagar is a coward. He’s actually giving credence to Putins “supposed” reason for invading Ukraine. This is the same guy that predicted over and over that Russia wouldn’t invade Ukraine. His foreign policy goals are clearly anti western.
Russias argument for invasion of Ukraine over NATO expansion is complete BS. If Russia takes over Ukraine, they gain 3 NATO allies at their doorstep. If Ukraine joined NATO, it would be 1 more.
The Western European countries would never agree to this. Would effectively mean that all of Europe is in nuclear danger the moment Ukraine is accepted into NATO
Ukraine joining NATO can never be allowed to happen. I’m done with Ukraine – just let Russia have it all. Have you seen most US cities – we need the here more.
You would need to understand the demographics of Ukraine to know that NATO membership is a bad idea. Ethnic Russians living in eastern Ukraine wants nothing to do with the west and much less with NATO. For Ukraine to be part of NATO would mean to force these eastern Ukrainian Russians under the boot of NATO and hosting missiles in their neighborhoods to point towards their relatives in Russia. Admitting Taiwan into NATO is much more easier since Taiwan is not as divided as Ukraine, much more friendly to the west, and very wary of China. If the Obama admin understood that, they wouldn't have miscalculated by doing a coup in 2014, and got hoodwinked when a civil war manifested in that divided country.
thank you for pushing me into checking the gdp and Alabama and Poland. It's funny that such shitty European economy would be 3times the size of Alabama and more than 41 US states.
lol title should read HUGE PUSH for WW3 what's sad is most Americans aren't being told why Russia is so upset in the first place if they knew they would understand if we had China or Iran army bases near our border we would be huge butt hurt as well but we would never let that happen
USA is paying the most because it wants this war the most, Russia would not have invaded Ukraine, and soured it's relationship with Europe, if USA wasn't interfering.
Keep this endless war going. Warmongers
They are just pushing Russia to the point they really need to retaliate so the west can declare war on Putin. NATO doesn’t give a shit about Ukraine
LOL, Russia MUST be winning.
the practiced ignorance here makes me wonder if there is Kremlin funding in this studio
All Russia has to do is say Ukraine has WMDs and they can invade, right?
US and Russia should join forces and put an end to Baltic states … we'd be better off 😂
Well, Biden did supply billions in weapons to the Taliban when we left. This admin does seem to work for the military industrial complex, so i don't see a choice. How else can we promise trillions more dollars for millions of dollats worth of weapons.
NONE of this matters as its a non-event.
Ukraine cannot become a NATO member because there is a rule that prevents any nation joining NATO if any parts of its border or borders are in dispute. Its why Putin supported the ethnic Russians in Crimea and the Donbas.
This is one of the reasons Putin has supported other ethnic Russian enclaves or other enclaves in countries like Moldova with the Region called Transnistria and in Armenia with the region called Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia with the region called South Ossetia.
It's Putin's way of preventing more nations joining NATO.
Riddle me this warmongers : if Ukraine is winning…why push NATO membership now?
Alabama Gdp is as much as Poland? You are comparing a 5M state to a 40M country. Poland's GDP is more than 3x Alabama's…. there was also an agreement between US, Russia and Ukraine that Ukraine's security will be guaranteed if she gives up her nuclear weapons, so she did. Guess what happened next?
FYI, Poland’s GDP is 3x that of Alabama. They spend 4% of their GDP on their military in 2022, vs 3.1% for the US.
It’d be great for Saager to get the facts straight before making blanket statements. Helps with credibility.
This could also be a ploy to scare Russia to the table..threaten NATO membership and then cut a deal that bars them from it to make it look like Russia won a concession.
President Biden has never seen a war he didn’t like… until 20 years later when it becomes a political liability.
Russia's opinions about NATO are wrong though. NATO is defensive in nature to begin with. NATO has never attacked a foreign nation without having been attacked first. The only thing Russia hates is that they don't have the ability to commit violent actions against any NATO neighbors for fear of them invoking Article 5. What nation wouldn't want that kind of security from an aggressive neighbor nation like Russia? Maybe Russia shouldn't have proven that they are a threat to their neighbors like Ukraine, by invading them? Then their arguments against NATO would actually be convincing, and likely done more to dismantling NATO than actively aggressing a neighbor.
You are incredibly insulting. France to name one. France is stronger than Russia. France is civilized and not stealing children. I know you imagine your above it all and have escaped history. You have not. The reason America is the place you enjoy today is that millions of West Germans and South Koreans and others lined up to die fighting Russia. We spoiled American sent guns. Some American were in uniform to fight the away game. We did very well by that deal. We were the consumer of last resort and ran trade deficits to keep other economies functional enough that they could fight the Russians. Now you brag about your willingness to abandon allies to atrocities so you can make a separate peace with the FSB. A truce between Russia and Poland is a challenge. Mocking Poland and justifying for "Great power Russia" works directly against the possibility of that truce.
The title should say "HUGE PUSH for WWIII"
The only way Biden can save Ukraine is to commit US ground troops. But they have undermined recruitment to such an extent with their woke culture push in the military that they can't get people to sign up. If US ground troops do get involved, I see no alternative to a reactivation of the draft.
If you vote for Biden in 2024, you're voting for nuclear war with Russia.
Bad idea
Finally something I agree with from the Biden administration
But we just need to SEND X and Y AND Z to Ukraine!!!! COME ON, they NEED the X and Y!
America the great satan, never thought i would agree with that statement in my life. Ever war in the last 30 years was based on lies by our government. What has it gotten us? Dead Americans and rich politicians and rich military industrial complex. Remember when the left hated these things?
Adding Ukraine to NATO is beyond insane! We need smarter people steering the ship!
Absolute lunacy. The only acceptable response to the "alliance" & the Baltic states should be "F*ck off".
Stoltenberg & his NATO buddies are basically arms dealers and thugs. So of course they support expansion.
Apparently sager never seen anything about ww2. Letting a tyrant just roll over countries and sitting back doing nothing worked out well for Europe and the millions killed.. this is looking just like ww2 only the Russians are a joke where Germany succeeded. China replaces Japan and Iran north Korea would be Italy. Except these new countries are a joke compared to the ww2 countries. Quit being a puss sager. Oh and horrible journalism, they did not invade Ukraine because of nato. They literally say on TV as well as Putin calling them cokaroches and annihilating them. And also put in has said how he wants the old soviet bloc back. And you call your selves journalists.
And oh BTW, we have ballistic missile defense sites in Poland and Romania.
Germany is on line one they want to talk about the pipeline again 😂 na I’m just joking you know their in on it too 😂
Withdraw from nato. We take all the expense and all the risk. We dont need any of their help anyway in european conflict that has nothing to do with us.
Reminds me of the old studio at Young Turks.
The Baltics and Poland are batshit crazy these days….
no. they should not be in NATO.
for the same reason as they were not let in before.
their government is too corrupt.
Dude, fix your SALIVA! I’m tired of all that swallowing.
LOLOLOLOL sure, let's send Ukraine – a horribly corrupt country – into NATO. How much is the big guy getting for that? That's worth more than 10%
Hey hey, loving the new set. Some constructive feedback though, I feel like the background is just a bit too close? I know you’re probably working with limited space but if you’re able to bring the desk a foot or two forward maybe? If not, no worries, the set is amazing