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1. I did not hear him equate realist with moral in that talk. Most people would consider the realist school to be amoral. (I advocate neither) 2. "NATO pus
by NonEUCitizen 5y ago
1. I did not hear him equate realist with moral in that talk. Most people would consider the realist school to be amoral. (I advocate neither)
2. "NATO pushed..." does not imply Russia is right. Russia is wrong, legally and morally, but it can be simultaneously true that NATO pushed Russia.
- _djo_ 5y ago1. He has in other talks, and he has used it as a way to explain away Russia's actions. As though they're an actor with no agency that can only react. 2. "NATO pushed" is deceptive framing. The countries that joined NATO after 1991 had to lobby hard over many years to get NATO members to agree to expand. Even then the process took forever with MAPs and other interim steps each designed to slow the process down.