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Isn't understandingwar.org run by the same people who drove the Ukraine into this mess? Who were proponents of multiple wars that the U.S. has lost (Afghanistan
by xglamp 4y ago
Isn't understandingwar.org run by the same people who drove the Ukraine into this mess? Who were proponents of multiple wars that the U.S. has lost (Afghanistan being the most recent one)?
How would we know what appeasing Russia will do when it has never been tried? Not all wars are like WWII. What if this is the same as the Finnish winter war, where Stalin was eventually content with Karelia and some other small parts?
- btilly 4y agoThe people who drove Ukraine into this mess are Putin and his cronies. I'm quite sure that they aren't running understandingwar.org. That said, the organization does have a pro-US military bias, but works to create neutral and factual reporting. If you don't like their bias, you can double check with a variety of other sources with different biases. For example https://www.aljazeera.com/where/ukraine/ https://www.aljazeera.com/where/ukraine/ does not take a pro-US position. Also, appeasing Russia HAS been tried. We let them take part of Georgia. We let them take part of Ukraine 8 years ago. We let them have a free hand in Syria. And through that all, we continued to treat them as a normal country. Germany in particular proceeded on a "business as usual" policy. We even raised only minimal objections when they were caught trying to manipulate elections in a variety of countries including the USA. (Without Russian assistance Trump would have never been President.) The result has been the current full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Offering full support to Ukraine is a reversal of our previous policies.
- tomp 4y agoyou're just repeating Western propaganda copy&paste US definitely provoked Russia in Ukraine, including the 2014 coup many people choose to believe Russiagate simply because they can't admit to themselves that Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate