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Has the US been denied entry into CSTO? Has the CSTO expanded against the will of NATO?

i don't think nato cares about csto

It's NATO's fault for consisting of the absolutely most grotesque reaches of Imperialist countries

russia is literally doing an imperialism right now, but nato is the one with grotesque reaches, okay

Bzzzt wrong. NATO has been expanding long before.

lmao because nato predates russia

and russia started getting into iffy wars basically at its inception

When and why did Russia start "misbehavin?"

probably because they're an imperialist power? i don't know

East-Germany purged Nazis

okay

NATO was formed to be anti-USSR, after the collapse of which the Russian Federation tried to join NATO, and was denied.

in the same way the us wouldn't be allowed to join csto

The RF then complained about NATO expansion, which had not ceased.

i don't see how it's nato's fault that people are so sick of russia's shit that they're signing up to the defensive alliance against them in their droves

it was provoked by NATO expansion

nato expansion that existed because of russian land grabs

nato isn't the warsaw pact. they aren't sending in tanks to force people to be a part of their alliance.

this is just you doing the thing you accused me of doing by refusing to consider externalities

NATO didn't start after 2022

russia didn't start misbehavin' after 2022 either

many of its leaders were Nazi officers

east germany was part of the warsaw pact, and had plenty of ex-nazis in its ranks

the reason you can't draw a line from that to today is because the ussr folded like a cheap suit 30 years ago

it has always been a way to exert Western supremacy

you're just kind of saying things now

in this case the external pressure is a rogue state doing a cheeky land grab on its neighbor

i'm not sure why that's nato's fault, although i'm very excited that you're about to tell me

no it isn't, and also, it's rent-seeking by having countries ask to join? yes this makes sense

even if that was an accurate description of nato, that's not an accurate description of a protection racket

Essentially, NATO serves as a protection racket

what

I can say with reasonably certainty that if other polls match their results, which they do, then the MOE is meaningless

no that isn't how statistics works

Their own data says otherwise.

if you look at only their own data then no, there was a statistically negligible increase

so if a net change between the two is within the margin of error, you can't state with confidence that it's an increase and not just random noise

isn't a net 2% gain within the margin of error?

"wet bulb" isn't a term that's eerie and unsettling to anyone else?

does a boat swim

Amazon hoped the unit would one day generate a profit by users spending more money somehow

anybody that's used an alexa for more than about 5 minutes should have noticed that pretty much everything it can do that's more complicated than setting a timer to tell you when your chicken nuggets are done is designed to push you into the amazon services ecosystem