That’s unfortunately true. It’s already been proven he’s trying to grasp as ally straws (IE: China and Belarus) but Putin has also teased at invading possibility Poland as a mission was barely 10 miles off from its border and the whole Chernobyl matter as he sent his troops to attack in and around it which could highly trigger a nuclear meltdown that would wipe half of Europe out as it would trigger out nuclear sites to go off.
That is not how nuclear 'sites' work. In addition, Russia has long since claimed dominion over Chernobyl. It did so within the first week.
No what I mean is a explosion depending how big it is can rock or create a chain reaction resulting in other possibilities of nuclear sites becoming active if they were once stable.
Nuclear reactors are not nuclear bombs. It would require a nuclear missile of, and surpassing, Tsar Bomba to damage multple nuclear reactors, because nuclear reactors do not explode with that force. That or a coordinated nuclear MIRV strike, but you must note the fallout does not care about national boundaries. The worst meltdown ever was the Chernobyl, and all it blew was the top of the reactor house. The worst of it is the radiation which spreads along the air for miles upon miles. Across many nations. That is the worst of it, and it is bad.
NATO stone-faced Russian membership in most western international organizations, due to Soviet enmity. And you are correct, if Poland is invaded, NATO would be obligated by rule to defend it unilaterally. But Russia has not invaded Poland.
Of course. I wasn't referring to that. If a nuclear weapon is dropped on a station, there's nothing really to stop it. I was just saying that nuclear power plants are usually pretty safe and have all sorts of protection against things like malfunctions and natural disasters.
Anything is safe so long as it is maintained. Unfortunately, money exists. But I digress.
What do you mean by that?
Eh, I feel like calling NATO "imperialist" is an exaggeration. None of NATO's current members were forced into the organization, despite some people believing the CIA infiltrated former Soviet-controlled nations when there's plenty of evidence to support that such a thing never happened. Former Soviet and Eastern Bloc nations were abused and economically underdeveloped under the Soviet regime. Their citizens had few rights and freedoms. After these nations gained independence, they wanted to join NATO to ensure they would never face such horrors again.
It wishes to force "western values" on the world, which is just code for neoliberal capitalism. Sounds pretty imperialistic to me.
You mean the Western values of... what, not attacking your neighbors? My country joined because it felt unsafe, after twenty years of Russian occupation. It's been proved again and again and again that this feeling was justified, not only due to what is happening in Ukraine now, but thanks to literal terrorist attacks committed by Russian terrorists. (I doubt you actually know about it because my country is too small and unimportant, but feel free to look up information about the ammunition warehouse in Vrbětice.) The truth is that, throughout history, Russia has always been an aggressor and no amount of fingerpointing at other nations will change that. They're a literal empire, too, btw. (And I'm not saying America isn't imperialist, either. These two things can be both true at the same time and it's SHOCKING how so many people act like it cannot be possible.)
Why are you assuming I'm pro-Russia in this conflict? I'm not.
Why are you not replying to my actual questions? Please, explain how wanting to defend ourselves is imperialistic or forcing our values on others.
You can feel free to disagree all you want, but I just don't see how forcing capitalism on people is defense. Capitalism destroys millions of lives, including my own. There's obviously no easy solution to that, but getting cozy with the biggest imperialist empire in the modern world is not a solution. Again, this is just my opinion.
I don't live in Eastern Europe, but I am of Eastern European background (both Ukrainian and Russian if you must know) so I think I do have a place to speak here.
