Esheru, genuinely interested in what u think the Ukrainians should have done? When you check the voting figures, the majority wanted alignment with Europe, & for good reason. I've been following Putin's behaviour for close on a decade, & before that. Opposition is assassinated & his wants expansion
How far back do you want to go? Shall we start at 2008 Victoria Nuland and Obama? Professor John Mersheimer, professor Jeffrey Sachs and even Henry Kissinger, all said there’s 30 years ago, if they keep poking Russia, Russia will attack. The US overthrew a democratically elected government 1/4
Oh god, I can't believe you're falling for the "ukraine shouldn't have provoked russia line". How about Russia kept its nose out of Ukraine in the first place and didn't react to the popular ousting of a president that Russia wanted in power by invading the country?
The Ukrainians should never have trusted the Americans. I’m not saying Russia is better. But everything we see play out today, those three who I have just mentioned, said it 30 years ago nobody listened. I said this is at the outbreak & people were calling me a Russia sympathising pro Putin 2/4
Russia is probably the most difficult country to defend. Land boarded with between 12 and 15 different countries on three continents. It had a legitimate right to ask for no NATO on its borders the US and it’s all I didn’t listen. Remember when the Soviets parts missiles in Cuba? 3/4
It had no legitimate right to ask for no NATO on its borders, and all its invasion has done is incentivuse orher bordering countries to join NATO. It us very notable that the countries that Russia has invaded have all been non-NATO members
I find this so frustrating about "my" side, who correctly point out when the West imposes its will using false pretexts on weaker countries, yet seem incapable of seeing that there are aggressive colonial non-Western powers that do exactly the same.
The US nearly brought the world to an end, they of all people should’ve known what would happen. The biggest losers here are the Ukrainian people. The winners are the American conglomerates, BlackRock and Monsanto to name a few 4/4
I've seen all of what you're saying. But, it negates the will of the majority in Ukraine, who, especially among the young, voted to be closer to Europe. We should've had talks with Russia, but Putin chose war & war crimes, & no one reacted to the Usurption of Crimea etc. On Balance I'm w/ Zelensky.
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Of course they were, how much of Ukraine has the orange shitgibbon and his monkey given away?