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To: TigerPaw who wrote (19624)	1/29/2025 12:56:21 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 20533

re: NATO was not a threat to Russia. Never mind the fact that NATO did not dissolve, as it should have, when Warsaw Pact dissolve. Crossing the Rubicon was NATO declaration to enlarge itself into Ukraine and Georgia. When Bush Jr. concocted this idea, Merkel's reaction was that Russia will perceive it is a declaration of war (and she was right). French president also opposed this expansion. The key here is not what people in the West think, it is what people in Russia think, and Merkel had a good feel for that. re: Russia needs a Marshal plan, and probably needs to be transformed into 3 or more countries. That's WW3 talk. I am pretty sure it is spelled out in the Russian nuclear doctrine. Again, it is what they think about the subject, not what we think. It is art of diplomacy, something that the US has not used for decades. US has used diktat rather then diplomacy since the dawn of the unipolar world in 1990. But that era has ended. It may be a good time to rediscover diplomacy. The key skill to diplomacy is listening. If you look closer, Marco Rubio surely has ears for that.