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Okay, so let's be clear. It's okay to invade a country as long as: 1. You do not claim its territory or its part as your own (but you can maintain a military
by konart 6y ago
Okay, so let's be clear.
It's okay to invade a country as long as:
1. You do not claim its territory or its part as your own (but you can maintain a military presence there if you feel so)
2. You do claim its territory or its part as your own but only if kind people of the first world are bit too close to the territory in question
This begs for a simple question: will the US and EU lift their sanctions if Russia gives Crimea (and to Donbas regions) back while 'maintaining a military presence' there?
- ashtonkem 6y agoYou keep saying “it’s okay if” as if you’re trying to catch me in a moral trap. This is annoying; I’ve made it very clear that the invasions discussed here are ethically wrong. The equivalent of what Russia is doing in Ukraine would be if America annexed part of Mexico (again). It’s hard to imagine anything short of “we are giving the land back and pulling out” would calm nerves over a suddenly expansionist US. I imagine Canada in such a situation would be extremely jumpy for a long time, given their relative proximity, and “we gave it back but it’s still garrisoned by us” probably wouldn’t be good enough for them. For actual equivalence, I think it would be much more fair to say that Russia can maintain a military presence in Syria, as that seems much more morally and geopolitically equivalent to what the US is doing in Saudi Arabia, and that denouncing Russian bases in Syria would be pretty hypocritical given what the US is also doing in the region. Although both countries should probably just stop what they’re doing in the region all together.