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Mar 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NATO rejects Ukraine's demand for no-fly zones
“Allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) said on Friday that they will increase support but will not grant Ukraine's request for the implementation of no-fly zones. "We are not part of this twitter.com/i/events/14832…
2/“conflict, and we have a responsibility to ensure it does not escalate and spread beyond Ukraine," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference.”
It’s a heavy responsibility but Jens Stoltenberg is right. The conflict is a direct result of the Minsk Conundrum
3/left unresolved, Ukrainian nationalism fighting pro-Russian separatists in Donbas & Russia’s repeated requests for the US & NATO to fully address its national security concerns going unanswered or crassly ignored. It is at the core a Russian-Ukraine conflict.
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Nuclear weapons and Ukraine
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“The ways we use “us against them”. Any time you feel threatened by something, you want to feel superior, stronger, and better than what you are up against.”
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