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Would you feel threatened if your neighbours set up weapons right outside your property line, ostensibly to defend in case you attack? Except that never happen
by aguaviva 2y ago
Would you feel threatened if your neighbours set up weapons right outside your property line, ostensibly to defend in case you attack?
Except that never happened in Ukraine, or in any of the other NATO countries close to Russia.
You know that, right?
- dotancohen 2y agoI'm showing you the Russian perspective. I don't care one way or the other.
- aguaviva 2y agoFunny, it definitely seemed as if you were presenting it as your own.
- esarbe 2y agoThat's not the Russian "perspective", that's just a Russian propaganda lie. The actual Russian perspective is "Let's quickly grab Ukraine before they completely turn towards Europe, otherwise Russia cannot be an empire again."
- fsloth 2y agoBravo sir, this is Alexander cutting the knot of muddled relativism. It may be strange to modern western minds but Russians still consider their imperial project as wholesome, good and nearly sacred. To get into the correct mindstate, you can read for example how Churchill venerated the British empire. The Russians hold this same veneration to their imperial project today. They also know western audience probably would not appreciate this reasoning so they need to invent laughable excuses like ”we were afraid of NATO expansion” that clueless western commentators happily repeat as the foundational reason.
- stoperaticless 2y agoI guess it’s one way to frame it. The other could be: Somebody is refusing to pay protection money and is forming a “neighbourhood watch”. We need to make example of them.