If the Russians had stayed home none of this would be happening.
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Yep... a lot of trouble would've been avoided... but Putin is hellbent on reconstructing the USSR, and now it's going to cost the Russians in ways they can't add up.
If America and NATO had not broken their word given in 1991 to not move NATO one inch eastward, in return for German reunification and Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe, but instead, pushed NATO right to the border of Russia, this would not have happened.
What you are saying is that if China, during a decade of American economic depression (a looming possibility) signed “mutual defense” pacts with Mexico, Canada and Cuba, and installed troops, tanks and thousands of MRBMs in those countries aimed directly at America, you would be fine with this. Completely fine.
As long as China subverted those countries first and installed CCP puppets, and the forces were “invited” in.
You would think this was just A1 fine, and would not do a thing about it.
You might not agree with what Putin did, I certainly don’t, but only a damned fool keeps poking a rattlesnake with a short stick, and then expresses shock and outrage over being bitten.
14,000 dead Ukrainians in Donblass would beg to differ…
Equally true: If the Americans had stayed home, none of this would be happening.
REEEEE! Russian soldiers are winning vs Nazis! Russian soldiers are being greeted as liberators! No civilians are being targeted or hurt! REEEEEE!!!