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"If you would just do what I told you, you wouldn't get hit!" Big yikes here...

• epicureanideal 3y ago
  That's not at all what I said. What do you think about the video I linked? Also, analogies to dysfunctional interpersonal relationships don't represent the dynamics of many-party international competition very well.
  • alvarezbjm-hn 3y ago
    "If the USA had not continued to expand NATO eastward (especially the discussion of making Georgia and Ukraine part of NATO in 2008), a few hundred thousand Ukrainians and Russians would still be alive and Crimea would still be part of Ukraine." Yes, you did say that. Russian response was overkill, but you didn't mention Putin there. Clever.
  • anonymouskimmer 3y ago
    > What do you think about the video I linked? I rarely take political speech on its face value. I only watched half a minute but Putin was stating what he stated for a particular audience, to get a particular reaction.
  • Benjammer 3y ago
    "We must respond to defensive fortifications that put missile batteries up outside our sovereign borders with extremely violent, extremely aggressive, expansionary excursions to conquer territory and move our border CLOSER to said missiles" The logic makes zero sense, I'm sorry. It's still a "well, I wouldn't have to do X if you didn't do Y" mentality that completely and utterly shirks any sense of responsibility for one's or one's country's own actions. It's hogwash doublespeak used by BOTH abusers in messy interpersonal relationships, AND by international politicians playing realpolitik.