Our destruction?
So the Russians are building bases along our border with the world’s most powerful military alliance?
Who invaded Iraq (under false pretences) and Syria, attacked Libya and sponsored a coup in Venezuela? Who’s been asked to leave by Nigeria but isn’t...
Who violated Minsk, lied about NATO East expansion, withdrew from the ballistic missile treaty, tries to violate Montreux?
Tell me, in all these countries we invade, for peace, democracy and human rights, who actually is democratic today?
They might not be democratic or respect human rights, but the jets of all US oil executives were already in Libya shortly after Kadafi died, as Benghazi happened. There might not be democracy in Syria, but we are guarding oil fields: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/06/812989398/in-syria-the-u-s-fight-to-protect-oil-fields
There is the US before and after the Cold War. Before and after 9-11. We once were defensive and actually did promote concepts like democracy.
Today, we are expansionist, expeditionary, offensive, willing to make deals with anyone and are quick to use force in order to advance our “economic interests.”
Ukraine is simply a political and economic interest, whereas Russia is who we want to strip of their oil producing frontier: Libya, Syria, Iraq, Venezuela.
But for Russia, having NATO and the US set up on their border in Ukraine is an existential threat. They aren’t threatening us, we are them.
Tell your democracy and peace fairy tales to your grandchildren.
“...But for Russia, having NATO and the US set up on their border in Ukraine is an existential threat. They aren’t threatening us, we are them...”
This is demonstrably false. If Russia was worried about the DEFENSIVE alliance of NATO on their borders, they should not have driven Finland to join NATO. Russia has a history of land grabs from Finland. And Sweden had a long and proud history of neutrality and yet Putin’s belligerence drove Sweden to abandon its traditional position and join NATO. Putin said, “Russia knows no borders” so how can NATO even be on their borders? Putin sent armored columns into the Republic of Georgia in a blatant land grab. Russia has a tradition of grabbing pieces of Georgia going back to Czarist times. Sochi, home of the Russian Winter Olympics site, was a Georgian town before Russia stole it.
And as for murders, your little ugly leprechaun Putin, was jealous of the handsome Boris Nemtsov, so he had him murdered near the Kremlin walls. Of course, Nemtsov was exposing Putin’s corruption and decadence too. Then your ugly little sickly man murdered the handsome Alexander Navalny. And you have the gall to say Russia has elections (YES, WITH DEAD OPPONENTS!!!!).
Do you still pretend to be a Texan? That’s a laugh!
