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Russia signed the Budapest memorandum where she promised to honour post soviet state borders. You don't renege international treaties just like that, at least n
by MichaelMoser123 10y ago
Russia signed the Budapest memorandum where she promised to honour post soviet state borders. You don't renege international treaties just like that, at least not in Europe.
% That's "fueling of a civil war"?
Russia also sent arms, volunteers and even regular troops into the conflict, it is a bloody damned proxy war.
- coldtea 10y agoMy point is, given the circumstances, it could very well be a full-on war and that would be legit too. It enters a "proxy war" to protect its large ethnic population in a bordering country -- and this only after the voted-for government of said country was toppled, and pro-fascists got into power who don't particularly like that population. For once, those are actual legit national "strategic interests", not "the world is ours so we have strategic interests all over the globe and we will crush anyone who steps on them" ones. The USSR used to do those too of course. But Russia is no USSR, and only a specific world player consistently does those the last 20+ years. Countries that have actually invaded other countries (4 of them in the last 20 years), have countless proxy wars, and leave behind hell holes of civil war and destruction have little basis to criticize. And in general, anybody who criticizes the second case, without criticizing 10 times as strongly the first, is at best a hypocrite.
- MichaelMoser123 10y agoFirst you say that Russia is not fuelling a civil war and then you say that they are justified to do so. You are just running propaganda.