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Russia to demand legal codification of NATO’s non-expansion eastward (tass.com)
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[–] -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

"Russia to demand legal codification of eastern European countries' lack of sovereignty"

NATO doesn't "expand" (edit: in an imperialist way, which was utterly obvious from context). Countries choose to join it. Russia wants to remove that choice.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    When you definitely know what the word expand means. And yes, Russia wants to stop NATO expansion, they haven't exactly been hiding this fact.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So why is this news? It's a delusional "gotcha" demand that NATO has no power to grant (short of denying countries that want to join), and you just admitted it's not new.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago*

    It's news because of the context of the negotiations that are currently happening. There is no delusional gotcha here. Russia is defeating NATO in Ukraine. As a result, the US, the main sponsor of NATO, wants to cut its losses. That's why negotiations are happening in the first place. Russia reiterating the root causes for the conflict shows they're not going to make concessions. Now the ball is in American court, they either have to keep allocating resources towards the proxy war, or accept Russian terms. Let me know if any of this was unclear for you.

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