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Why didn't Putin resist to being forced by the US to commit war-crimes? Is he a weak US puppet or does he have no conscience?
by vandreas2 5y ago
Why didn't Putin resist to being forced by the US to commit war-crimes? Is he a weak US puppet or does he have no conscience?
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoIt has no conscience, just like the U.S.
- vandreas2 5y agoThis narrative of a military superpower having no choice but to invade much weaker neighbours because it's being bullied by them is non-sensical but has a lot of appeal to people. The inherent contradiction in the rhetoric of being so strong that you 're being victimized by much weaker parties was really perfected by Trump.
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoYou’re naïve to think that Putin is invading a “weaker nation”. This is not about Ukraine. This is about the United States and NATO Encroaching Russia in Russia feeling like it has to defend itself. This is actually more about China and Russia than it is about only Russia. The United States is petrified that Russia and China will stop using the petrodollar.
- yucky 5y agoThere is Ukraine and there is Ukraine+NATO. In Russia's security interests, only the latter is worthy of war. Ukraine had a coup in 2014, installing an anti-Russian regime who then made overtures of joining with NATO (aka the US military cloaked in international "defensive" armor). This is why they responded in Crimea and now. This isn't happening in a vacuum.
- sidibe 5y agoYou might not have known this, but in this world only the Americans have free will. Not Eastern Europeans, not Putin. Everything else that happens in this world is just a reaction to the USA making the right or wrong decision. Apologies if you are not American and have just found this out. I can only hope this is softened by the possibility you don't have feelings