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Even in Obama's own book he states the reasons for Putin's motives regarding Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLqECnjJ7eU https://www.youtube.com/watch?
by tharmas 2y ago
Even in Obama's own book he states the reasons for Putin's motives regarding Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLqECnjJ7eU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLqECnjJ7eU
- mdp2021 2y agoThe matter was, "why is that relevant".
- tharmas 2y agoThe original comment doesn't show up so I'm not able to reread it but the relevancy of my bringing up Mearsheimer was purely in response to the mentioning of Russia invading a sovereign country, namely Ukraine, not to the Russian developers being removed by the Linux maintainers.
- aguaviva 2y agoYou may want to reevaluate your relationship with Mearsheimer. His reasoning is quite suspect, you know.
- tharmas 2y agoWhat makes his reasoning suspect? Genuinely curious. I accept that his reasoning that the Israel lobby is the main motive for US Foreign Policy in the Middle East is flawed or overstated. Anything else?
- aguaviva 2y ago(1) He fails to read Putin's colonial attitude toward Ukraine, and is way too eager to accept the regime's stated NATO encroachment position at face value (rather than for the foil that it is). (2) Dualism -- he's obsessed with the idea that the US has one real enemy, China, and that therefore Russia should be its friend, no matter what it does. But mostly because he makes a lot of distorted (and in my view digingenuous) statements (or omits things he should be saying) about basic events. Basically, he's just really slippery.
- mdp2021 2y agoYour post was in reply to a note about sanctions. There is a difference between "explaining actions" and "justifying actions".
- aguaviva 2y agoHe describes what Putin claims are his motives. That doesn't mean he believes those really were his actual motives, or that you should believe that. Though it should have been obvious enough, this point was entirely missed by the guys yapping in the video.