“Russia is invading, they aren’t being attacked by someone trying to take them over.“
And what would have happened if we invaded Cuba back in the day?
Morality doesn’t matter here. It never has in this sphere. The only thing that ever mattered here was “What do we think The Russians are gonna do”? “How hard can we push them to get what we want without making them go ballistic”? It was pretty much the same for the Russians “What can we get away with before the Americans redline?” ANYTHING the Russians were pushing for went against peace and freedom but we had to respect all those nukes and we had to respect redlines. So when did THE RUSSIANS become LOLthe russiansLOL? We’re attacking them in their own country. They see that as a redline. And now, ironically, it isn’t strictly nukes we have to worry about they can now attack conventional targets with conventional explosives that are hard or impossible to stop. Yeah we can escalate and they can escalate and then we can escalate….I’d counsel don’t push people past their redline unless you think they’re full of shit or you want to fight.
The Communist were trying to conquer the world, a fight they haven’t abandoned.
Cuba had recently fallen to the international communist, movement was allied with Communist Russia and was leading communist revolutions in this part of the world while the nuclear communists were stationing nuclear weapons in
Cuba in their war to conquer the entire world.
Communist Russia already held slave many of the nations of Europe and the communists had conquered China and North Korea, and North Vietnam and were fighting wars and revolutions in Indochina and Latin America, many American, European, Latin American, Asian and UN troops had already died in just the explosive global wars of the communists of just the previous 16 or 18 years.
Cuba wasn’t Ukraine and the United States wasn’t Russia and this hemisphere was not Europe where World Wars start and when Europe burns, the whole world burns.