You seems to have great difficulty spaying pressure to do a thing from accruing upon that pressure.
I explained the NeoCon-driven, post-Soviet exclusion of the Russian Federation, and the several pressure arising from it.
Nowhere did I say acting on those pressures was justified.
Try harder not to act like CNN; say what I said, not what I didn’t.
And if you’re going to contend that the ethnic issues in Ukraine were orchestrated out of Moscow, post substantive links.
Because everything I’ve already explained can be construed as NeoCon manipulation of the Russian Federation to orchestrate all that has come to pass, in order to both continue to uphold their demented “once a Soviet, never not a Soviet” meme, and continue to support American funding of, and providing of military hardware for, the war in Ukraine.
The ongoing stiff-arm of the RF at the behest of NeoCon foreign policy wonks kept them in position to be used as a reason for NATO expansion. Was the RF hostile, or had NeoCon mistreatment made them salty? Chicken? Egg? NeoCons never cared, because they knew mainstream media were too distracted by the now to ever expose the reality.
But I saw.
I saw the wall come down.
I saw the hope for a share in Western prosperity rise in the east.
And I saw the NeoCon machine leap into action to put cold water all over it.
“Once a Soviet, never NOT a Soviet!”
Mistrust of the Russian Federation was the order of the day, and never wouldn’t be.
What that would justify all of our military spending if we ever let Russians become our friends, or treating partners, a Most Favored Nation?
I’ll tell you what: NeoCon fortunes would topple into ruin.
And that is ALL you need to know about the political dynamics driving the rhetoric about Moscow: its a NeoCon psyop from one end to the other, engineered to keep squeezing war funding or of Mr. and Mrs. Main Street America.
You wanna save the fekkin world?
Put every damned NeoCon up against a wall with a blindfold and a Marlboro Red.
That’d get you well past halfway to peace around the globe.
Until Russia's invasion in 2014 we had good relations with Russia. They soured after Russia's attack on Ukraine.
And if you’re going to contend that the ethnic issues in Ukraine were orchestrated out of Moscow, post substantive links.
Rather, you provide the links that show there were ethnic tensions before Russia's 2014 invasion. Even afterwards, private polls in 2020 and 2022 showed that the residents of Donbas preferred union with Ukraine, not with Russia.
Because everything I’ve already explained can be construed as NeoCon manipulation of the Russian Federation to orchestrate all that has come to pass, in order to both continue to uphold their demented “once a Soviet, never not a Soviet” meme, and continue to support American funding of, and providing of military hardware for, the war in Ukraine.
Construed by someone who has an a priori conviction that that is the reason. The general American public has supported Ukraine since the Russian invasion. One needs no other reason than the desire to support Ukraine against a Russian invasion. There is no need to assume a hidden NeoCon agenda.
The ongoing stiff-arm of the RF at the behest of NeoCon foreign policy wonks kept them in position to be used as a reason for NATO expansion. Was the RF hostile, or had NeoCon mistreatment made them salty? Chicken? Egg?
I suggest that you read the Russian literature on their views on Ukraine. Russian nationalists, including Putin, have long sought to reintegrate Ukraine into Russia. It is a fantasy to think that Russia is purely acting in reaction to western provocations and in self-defense.
Mistrust of the Russian Federation was the order of the day, and never wouldn’t be. What that would justify all of our military spending if we ever let Russians become our friends, or treating partners, a Most Favored Nation?
You have the order of events reversed. Russia was a friendly trading partner up until its 2014 invasion. Russia brought on the sanctions by their own actions. Nor was Russia's Most Favored Nation status evoked until 2022.
I’ll tell you what: NeoCon fortunes would topple into ruin.
And there you have the proof that it is you who have turned this into a proxy war, as a way to use Russia to defeat your hated NeoCons, the freedom of the Ukrainians be damned.