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One guess is all that it should take, given the existing historical precedent.
Haha. Which is also why Poland is trying to be able to shoot down objects in Ukraine airspace.
The US maintains a defensive contingent in Poland. Even with how much Trump loves the taste of Putins cock, I don't see how he could justify doing nothing about dead American soldiers. And even if the US, stays out of the fight, Poland itself is armed to the fucking teeth and has the rest of NATO backing them. Does Putin want unsupervised Canadians in Moscow? Because this is how you get unsupervised Canadians in Moscow.
I am losing it over this phrasing 😂
Can't claim credit for that one, sadly.
that happened during his last term
1939? You mean when Poland was being occupied by the Nazis? Also, everything up to 1907 would have been done under the empire that was toppled by the Russian revolution in 1917. The formation that resulted is the one that poland would have been attacking in 1921, before they had officially formed the USSR in 1922, which altogether was dissolved 35 years ago in 1991. You realize geopolitics is about more than just monolithic masses of land?
If you're going to make a comment like that you need to have your facts straight. Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was a real thing where Nazis and the USSR invaded Poland.
Fair enough, I was only looking at the dates and lining them up with the limited Russian history I am familiar with. I mean the alternative was still potentially complete Nazi occupation of Poland, if those lines weren't drawn (Of course it's a foregone conclusion that the Nazis were going to invade Poland) or to go to war with the Nazis and Poland as the battlefield in hopes of ending up with full Russian occupation, but I guess the distinction is important. I don't claim to be an expert though, feel free to correct me or expand upon anything I'm missing.
Edit: also the Russians didn't invade until 16 days after the Nazis did, when Poland was already effectively defeated. Again, feel free to fill in the blanks. Cause to me it seems to me that the pact served as reassurance that the Nazis would stop their invasion at the line drawn, so that Russia could allow the invasion to play out (on the off chance of a Polish victory); rather than invading simultaneously and practically guaranteeing Polish defeat; without risking all of Poland becoming Nazi territory.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you got downvoted for having tankie vibes when most of it was pointing out that the Russia that invaded Poland before 1922 (Tzarist Russia) isn't the same Russia as USSR/Russia.
Yeah I figured, I've seen a lot of accurate accounts of history get derided as being "tankie" or worse without any legitimate challenge to what was said. It's such a powerful thought-terminating cliche around here that I almost never venture into the .world-sphere anymore.