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It was Nazi Germany, not “the West”, that invaded the USSR. The West, insofar as that means anything, was fighting on the other side - alone for 2 years, while
by dash2 5y ago
It was Nazi Germany, not “the West”, that invaded the USSR. The West, insofar as that means anything, was fighting on the other side - alone for 2 years, while the USSR had signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
The rest of your analogy is also weak. We haven’t armed one side in a drug war (eh?) NATO membership has not even been realistically on the table. As for the West “doing whatever they want”, can you give some examples? My impression was that eastern European countries were keen to join the EU, not that this was imposed on them. And once in, they have very much forged their own path, often to the great discomfort of Western Europeans (eg in Hungary, Poland).
- random_upvoter 5y ago> It was Nazi Germany, not “the West”, that invaded the USSR. Ok and if you look at the last 30 years, which "side" has been to most aggressive in attacking and subjugating foreign nations? "Oh but when we do it, it's for good reasons." Then the West is genuinely surprised that other blocs like South America or the Mid East are not jumping on the great anti-Russia train by default. What is wrong with those people?
- watwut 5y agoWhere do you see genuine surprise? Like, you made that up. However, I see a lot of ingenuine surprise over, like, right-next country accepting refugees from country just across the border. The very same people who would cry hypocrisy of the refugees were not accepted (you demand surrounding countries in other conflicts to accept refugees). I see a lot of blaming America for Russian actions, in Ukraine and of Russian actions in Syria too.
- dash2 5y agoAbout those examples i asked for…
- tkot 5y agoIt does seem like almost entire world (including most of South America and Middle East) condemns this particular invasion, though: > The vote on the “Aggression against Ukraine” resolution was 141-5, with 35 abstentions. > Only Belarus, Syria, North Korea and Eritrea joined Russia in opposing the measure, (...) https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-united-nations-general-assembly-business-north-korea-80c6e848c8d904ef981b5df50bd024d1 https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-uni...
- random_upvoter 5y agoOf course we all condemn Russia's aggression. I condemn Russia's aggression. Condemning costs nothing. But those other countries are not resorting to extremely harsh economic measures against Russia, nor are they sending weapons to Ukraine.