Alexander Borodai honestly explains the goals of the war
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Alexander Borodai is a member of Russian Duma and one of the founding fathers of the "DPR" (Donetsk People Republic) under FSB control. Commentary by Maksim Borodin: First, he admits that any cease...

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Alexander Borodai is a member of Russian Duma and one of the founding fathers of the “DPR” (Donetsk People Republic) under FSB control.

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  • First, he admits that any ceasefire for Russia will only be a temporary freeze in the war, because Putin’s main goal will not be achieved - taking control of all of Ukraine and establishing a puppet Russian regime. Any independent Ukraine for Russians is “Western weapon”.

  • Second, he admits that Russia has been waging war with the help of people like him in Ukraine since 2014, and in 2022 it only continued with a full-scale invasion.

  • And most importantly, third, he directly says that the problem is not that Ukraine can be in NATO. The problem for Russians is that they consider all of Ukraine to be their “historical territory” and that Ukrainians “do not exist as a nation at all”, and that Ukraine is inhabited by “divided Russians”.

  • @khannieEnglish
    9•1 day ago

    EU accession would cover it. The mutual defence part is fairly ironclad - “obligation” and “by all the means in their power”. Definitely less wishy-washy than article 5 IMO.

    edit: Here’s the relevant text:

    If a Member State is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other Member States shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. This shall not prejudice the specific character of the security and defence policy of certain Member States.

    Commitments and cooperation in this area shall be consistent with commitments under the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which, for those States which are members of it, remains the foundation of their collective defence and the forum for its implementation.

    Link to treaty. It’s at the bottom.

    Poland and the Baltics would be so excited at the prospect of dishing out some historical retribution so I feel like it would be enough to deter Putin.

    • Skua
      2•1 day ago

      Fair point regarding the mutual defence clause actually, I had misremembered it as being significantly more vague. I’d be in favour of welcoming Ukraine into the EU, although as a Brit it would provoke a significant degree of envy in me

      • @[email protected]English
        1•10 minutes ago

        The carve-out for neutral nations might throw people off (“This shall not prejudice…”) but with Sweden and Finland not neutral any more only the Austrians are left and we can manage without the catastrophe relief force they call an army.

      • @khannieEnglish
        3•22 hours ago

        Ah c’mon back in neighbour. I really hope you do soon.

        edit: And there is some vagueness in there but it’s only to cover neutral countries - their obligation would be financial I think.