This war was always going to happen sometime this decade regardless of who was running Russia, Ukraine, or the United States. Does that make any part of it right or justified? Hell no.
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Your statement doesn’t make any sense. Clearly you are wedded to “Russia is evil” and nothing I can present can change your viewpoint.
I don't think that paranoia justifies invading Ukraine. They think it does. We have a difference of opinion.
Do I think bleeding Russia white in response is a good idea? Absolutely. It means they won't be able to do it to anyone else.
Would I prefer that there not be a war in Ukraine? Absolutely.
A question for you. Why are you acting as an apologist for a nation and government waging a war of conquest? Do you not think it is evil to do so?
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
“wedded to” and “unjustified” are two sides of something that runs extremely deep. I don’t fault the Russians for attempting to take care of a problem that was very clearly growing since 2014 but their abject failure to prepare and execute their solution with anything remotely approaching finesse is an enormous contribution to the shitshow that is now.
That Ukraine was and is a hub of western corruption, that they are a festering boil of Pagan Nazism and that they had many repurposed biological facilities clearly engaged in both general and Slavic centric biological weapons research is not reasonably disputable (budgetary line item for Covid 19 associated funding before the virus was even publicly referred to as that?!?!).
Viewing this in the rear view mirror, it probably would have been far cheaper for Russia to have just bought the provinces (like before financialization and ideological fanaticism disincentivized great power deals).
It may not be classically intuitive that Russia entering Ukraine is a good idea, but last ~20 years intuition seems to indicate that it was spot-on. SOMETHING (i.e. Globalists/Elites/Deep State) is all in on having both Russia and the United States being terminally drained psychologically, financially and militarily. I’ve a few ideas/theories about who and how that plays out, but not nearly enough time to put together the book that would explain my reasoning :-(