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I think the opposite, the us and NATO response is to show the world that say invading Taiwan will be very painful Invading by NATO members is as always ok, Lib

I think the opposite, the us and NATO response is to show the world that say invading Taiwan will be very painful Invading by NATO members is as always ok, Libya Syria Afghanistan Iraq

jacquesm 5y ago
I'm sure that is part of the motivation, but it definitely isn't the main motivation, besides that the situation around Taiwan and China is not comparable in many ways to the one between Russia and Ukraine.
Cthulhu_ 5y ago
Were any of those invasions unprovoked? Was Russia's invasion of Ukraine provoked? Like, has there been evidence of the claimed nazis (which AFAIK isn't grounds for invasion) or whatever? Did Ukraine strike first?
- jacquesm 5y ago
  Don't get drawn into whataboutism.
- pydry 5y ago
  The Azov brigades are pretty openly nazi and were explicitly and openly used by the non nazi Ukrainian government to cling on to the ethnically russian bits of ukraine as they were trying to declare independence from kyiv. If western ukraine were trying to break away and kyiv used nazi soldiers to cling on to lviv im pretty sure that the western propaganda organs (and by extension, you) wouldnt feel so ambivalent about the swastika tattoos and their war crimes and yea, it probably would be used as grounds for an intervention.