• cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    If Russia scares you so much then maybe you shouldn’t have all but declared war on Russia? Maybe you shouldn’t have given billions of euros and heavy weaponry to Nazis for the sole purpose of killing Russians? Maybe instead of antagonizing and attacking Russia you should have tried getting along with them? Crazy concept, i know.

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      I realize this is posted on lemmygrad, so I suppose pro-Russia takes are to be expected. But would you mind explaining to me how you justify Russia attacking/threatening to attack other countries when there was 0 chance they would have been attacked by another nation? Are you really claiming that what they re doing is a form of self-defense when they undoubtedly would have been left alone by the EU/NATO, had they not tried to take over a neighboring state?

      That reasoning seems ridiculous to me.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        “Undoubtedly” is doing a lot of work there. When NATO helped coup Qaddafi it demonstrated that it is perfectly willing to be used as a regime change tool by the US. “We came, we saw, he died!” Once that happened, Russia could no longer consider NATO to be a peaceful neighbor and had to defend its national interests. It was only a matter of time until they came for Russia next.