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>Western countries come much better for their record of wars over last decades than some others Are you forgetting about jetting across the world to Iraq and A
by h0h0h0h0111 5y ago
>Western countries come much better for their record of wars over last decades than some others
Are you forgetting about jetting across the world to Iraq and Afghanistan on dubious pretences?
While I certainly don't condone (nor frankly know much about) Russia's involvement in Ukraine and Crimea, at least they share borders and have a large number of ethnic Russians there to be fighting over.
- avmich 5y agoNo, I don't forget about West problems. Number of Russians in neighboring Ukraine is a pretense. The real reason is so called "imperial phantom's pains", the worldview of the Russian power about how everything works, the Cold War era division into "them" and "us". They don't believe in the democracy, they never experienced that and were trained to be suspicious about it. For just about everybody - Russians on both sides of the border as well as Ukrainians - the conflict made things worse, and for a long time. Kremlin lives in a bad illusion, which it tries to induce into others.