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It leaves out a crucial question: what would the US have to do for Mexico to isolate itself from the US as much as possible? What has Russia done in the past 10
by mopsi 5y ago
It leaves out a crucial question: what would the US have to do for Mexico to isolate itself from the US as much as possible? What has Russia done in the past 100 years to all other countries in Eastern Europe?
If you extend your analogy with the US behaving like Russia towards its neighbors, perhaps Russian forces on Mexican borders would sound perfectly fair.
After the US invaded Mexico, killed off political and cultural elite, and started colonizing it with american resettlers to eradicate Mexican culture, but Mexico somehow regained independence, would it really sound so strange if Mexico started seeking alliance with China to prevent it from happening again?
- vandermik 5y agoUS can elect a president that could actually build a wall
- mopsi 5y agoNot exactly comparable with genocide, is it?
- vandermik 5y agosure, and good thing neither did happen
- mopsi 5y agoSure thing, buddy. Flagged as kremlinbot.
- vandermik 5y agoWhat makes you think that? Are we discussing "Understanding the War in Ukraine" or calling each other names? I'm not support this war in any sense. But at least I understand the reasons behind it. I'm actually not awared of any sign of genocide from russians to ukranians (and vice verse). If you do, plese enlight me.
- mopsi 5y ago> I'm actually not awared of any sign of genocide from russians to ukranians (and vice verse). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor, followed by suppression of Ukrainian culture until 1991. Russia continues to deny Holodomor to this day, and in the recent speech Putin called the whole idea of Ukrainian independence a fiction, and now he has declared a war on Ukraine. I don't see how this has any similarities to US-Mexico relations. Does the US deny that Mexico has the right to exist and is it preparing to wage a war on Mexico to replace its government and absorb the country?
- vandermik 5y agoI was thinking you mentioned some fake "genocide" happened during the last 10 years. Both Russia and Ukraine blame this on each other sometime. Yes, Holodomore did happened, and like it mentioned in the article it was only a part of a huge Soviet famine of 1932–1933 which affected not only ukranians but almost all nations in the south part of USSR including russians. It's a shame that modern Russia not recognized this as a genocide, and not only ukranian genocide. Because it really happened. 100 years ago. Under USSR and Joseph Stalin. So, if that is a valid point for Ukraine to join NATO now, would it be fair to Mexico to join Russia Military Alliance, because they will tell the world, they suddenly afraid of USA expansion and following culture suppression? I mean, what USA did to native americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_removal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_removal
- vandermik 5y ago> but Mexico somehow regained independence, would it really sound so strange if Mexico started seeking alliance with China to prevent it from happening again? Absolutely not, and Ukraine has all the legal rights to do it. But that changes nothing to Russian perspective. Russia just will not allowed it. Same as US not allowed Cuba to place soviet nukes no matter what.
- mopsi 5y ago> But that changes nothing to Russian perspective. Then this perspective needs to change to accommodate valid concerns of others, too.