And in the Russians' view they are bordering a massive blob of western enemies that includes people that despise them(Poland, Balts, UK, Sweden, USA) and that have a massive conventional army and military arsenal and have been expanding to their borders even though they were promised no such expansion would happen.
Oh, really:
1) Got proof.
2) I am pro-Poland and pro-Russia(Shill GoG massively, cheer you on when you get into spats with the EU, own shares in your silver mines and GoG, one does not need to exclude the other, even though you papist bastards, fuck your mamas, tried to claim Raki was a type of "Wodka".
(NOTE for the ones who need trigger warnings/are thin of skin/do not understand Eastern slavic kultural kontext."Fuck your mama" is as widely used as "fuck", commonly is a way to end a sentence, really, like a fucking colon, in english and this is HUMOR!!!!)
When you try to Maidan him and support his political opposition - guess what happens.
Dude, the EU was established in 1992 with the Maastricht treaty, and since then it has just grown and grown in power and control, also there was far less trade and travel liberalization and far more currency controls back then, as in during the Cold War.I know you poles alternately hate it and love to grift from it and use it as the dog while you take up the shape of the tail that it is being wagged by, but ffs, read up on some contemporary European history.
Also, it was originally created and supported by industrialists and rightwingers from France and Germany who saw the two major power blocks as detrimental to their mutual interests and who wanted to have a third option, that was the European Coal and steel community.
It went through several reincarnations before 1992 and the ever closer union bullcrap.
Then again, you probably read no one's history but your own, especially the grienvencemongering bits of it.
94 was the height of the cold war, news to me!
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We have gone over this, again, and again, and again.
The association agreement would have meant no customs-free trade with Russia, which would have sunk a lot of their eastern industries and interfered with cultural ties and the like.
Then came in the likes of Right sector and the whole Euromeidan putch.
We are going in circles here, read what is already posted in the thread before you parrot the same old, tired nonsense.
No, they are literally a political no man;s land without any affinity towards any of the power blocks that keep them as buffers.
Bilateral trade - maybe, but not a political or military alliance.
Here is what we do with impudent pope fanbois invading our lands and their glorified secret police.
Party like it is 1205!
Last time it was 7:1 and only because Boril was a fucking moron.
The Kinghts' leader was then imprisoned in a tower, treated fairly and honored as per his station,the tower was even specially built for and named after him, but the French bastard decided to try and have some fun with our Tzar's wife, so the Tzar made him fly off his tower.
