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It's ironic that some feel Russia is justified in thwarting the expansion of NATO for its national security, completely overlooking the fact that the regions ot
by wdr1 5y ago
It's ironic that some feel Russia is justified in thwarting the expansion of NATO for its national security, completely overlooking the fact that the regions other countries want to join NATO is for their national security.
I've yet to hear why Russia has a better complain to its national security, than say, Ukraine.
- tpoacher 5y agoThis sounds reasonable at a very superficial level, but feels more like misdirection in terms of what NATO represents in the context of the cold war and the balance between two nuclear superpowers. After all the same argument could be made backwards for the US. Why shouldn't, e.g., Cuba not be free to host Russian missiles? They're a free country. Surely if the US tried anything to prevent that, their security concerns don't trump those of Cuba.
- mrhands556 5y agoCombine this with NATO ties to the Russian coup in 2014 conducted by some US funded neo nazi orgs in Ukraine (some of which are part of ukraines national guard today): What would we do if Russia had setup that coup in Canada? We’d have boots on the ground in weeks.
- sidibe 5y agoEuromaidan was not a coup set up by the West. From right there it's obvious you've drunk the propaganda quite easily. Putin overplayed his hand pressuring Ukraine to reject EU despite popular will and his stooge was driven out by mobs. If anything it was an attempt by Moscow to directly control the government of Ukraine, Yanokovych who had also been interested in EU fell in line but the rest of the country didn't follow.