partially correct. if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invadingef ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less aboute nato and somehow starti this war s would make that happ, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine there were 30 i countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country. and now as of tonight we know that sweden is going to join natoat as well. sweden said months ago that they wanted to join, but this is something that really until today looked like it couldn t happen and that s because for a new country to join nato, it has to be a unanimous decision. all the nato countries have to agree with h the decision, if o country doesn t agree it doesn t happen. and inre the case of sweden it s an original nato it was a nato w member, a single nato country,in turkey, that said no. they saidid finland was okay
putin felt like he had to invade ukraine because he felt very shy about nato. the nato alliance just had too many countries in it, too many countries that were too close to russia, and that all just gave putin this terrible feeling about nato being too close, and so therefore, he had to invade ukraine. i don t actually think that s it. i don t think we know all of the reasons he does what he does, who knows what s going on in his little short dictator heart of hearts. but if, in fact, the apologists are at least partially correct, if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invading ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less about nato, and somehow starting this war would make that happen, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine, there were 30 countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country, and now as of tonight, we
off, i m ready to rock. and just in today s news, it kind of goes downhill from there in terms of america s political snapshot at the moment. at least our political snapshot in the states, in the individual state of arizona that s another one of these states that was just riven by overthrow election demands byro trump and his supporters. today various parts of the arizonato republican party weren sort of panic mode after an arizona republican college group announced that the headline speaker for its next convention is going to be a guy who s a neo-nazi. the group s flyer for this upcoming conference listed three different county republican parties on the flyer as if they were cosponsorser of the event with a neo-nazi speaker. after one republican party official from maricopa county posted that online and publicly begged for party official said
demands, various parts of the arizona republican party were in a panic mode after an arizona college republican group announced that the headline speaker for its next convention is going to be a guy who s a neo-nazi. the group s flier for the upcoming conference listed three different county republican parties on the flier as if they were cosponsors of the event with the neo-nazi speaker, after one published it online and begged for party officials to distance themselves from the neo-nazi event, the republican party organizations in the three counties ultimately said they are not part of this event. you know, okay. bullet dodged. three arizona republican party county organizations are not
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