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Sankari said:
Nah, it could have happened if Stalin hadn't been so paranoid.

Remember that he started by trying to form an anti-Hitler pact with the Allies, then made a pact with Hitler that encouraged him to attack Poland, then backflipped after growing concerned by Hitler's success across Western Europe.
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Stalin actually trusted Hitler to be true to the Molotov/ Ribbentrop pact. Stalin refused to listen to intelligence reports from both the allies and his own side that Germany was gearing up to invade Russia. Stalin’s bad luck was that he lived at the same time as Hitler, another complete fruitloop.

A good book to read that will help understand Russian mentality is Russia by Anthony Beevor which focuses on the Russian Revolution. The leaders and their descendants were (and are) seriously damaged individuals
 
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Lukashenko sounds like he's panicking.
 
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The pace of the russian offensive in Bakhmut has considerably slowed down, and the Ukrainian defenders prevented the encirclement. Earlier russian troops tried to launch simultaneous offensives in all directions in the Bakhmut area, but now these were halted and the Ukrainian defenders stabilised the flanks and forced Russians to fight in the city.
 
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Sankari said:
Or, the worst case scenario: imagine how different things would have been if Stalin hadn't betrayed Hitler, and had instead remained his ally.
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Explain how this would have been ever possible given Lebensraum? Hitler was never going to be an ally to the Slavs. He saw them as people to be conquered and erased.
 
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Tephnos said:
Explain how this would have been ever possible given Lebensraum? Hitler was never going to be an ally to the Slavs. He saw them as people to be conquered and erased.
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Hitler didn't want Russia, he only wanted the smaller Soviet states. Stalin could probably have negotiated peace by allowing Germany to take over the Slavic neighbours Russia had already invaded and brutalised.

I accept it's a moot point, because Operation Barbarossa proved that Hitler was planning to betray Stalin long before Russia joined the Allies. Both leaders were paranoid about each other's intentions, and the irony is that some of that paranoia was justified (although there's still a lot of debate about whether or not Stalin was planning to invade German territory in the summer of '44).
 
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Wimbledon lifts ban on Russian & Belarusian players for 2023 Championships

Russian and Belarusian players will be able to compete at Wimbledon this year as the All England Club lifts the ban it imposed in 2022.
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"The AELTC and LTA said they stand by last year's position but that without changing their stance this year, tennis' two main professional tours, the men's ATP and women's WTA would have cancelled the LTA's membership."

"As a result, Queen's, Eastbourne and other British grass-court events would not have been staged, damaging British tennis organisations financially."

Money talks I guess...
 
Peter75 said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Wimbledon lifts ban on Russian & Belarusian players for 2023 Championships

Russian and Belarusian players will be able to compete at Wimbledon this year as the All England Club lifts the ban it imposed in 2022.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

"The AELTC and LTA said they stand by last year's position but that without changing their stance this year, tennis' two main professional tours, the men's ATP and women's WTA would have cancelled the LTA's membership."

"As a result, Queen's, Eastbourne and other British grass-court events would not have been staged, damaging British tennis organisations financially."

Money talks I guess...
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Disgraceful.
 
Peter75 said:
"The AELTC and LTA said they stand by last year's position but that without changing their stance this year, tennis' two main professional tours, the men's ATP and women's WTA would have cancelled the LTA's membership."

"As a result, Queen's, Eastbourne and other British grass-court events would not have been staged, damaging British tennis organisations financially."

Money talks I guess...
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You guess....? Welcome to reality.
 
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