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I am not implying in any way that Ukrainians are brainwashed. The main weapon that the US uses against geopolitical adversaries is to take some organic issue, t

I am not implying in any way that Ukrainians are brainwashed. The main weapon that the US uses against geopolitical adversaries is to take some organic issue, the sort which exist in every single country (including the US), and exploit it as much as possible to try to turn a small spark into a blazing inferno. If we didn't need to have McCain go speak in Ukraine to keep that fire burning - we wouldn't have. The optics are bad, it makes a mockery of any notion of not meddling in other democracies, and you can no longer dismiss direct involvement as just some conspiracy, as you initially tried to. The reasons countries don't want geopolitical adversaries on their doorstep is because superpowers have an unspoken (well.. sometimes spoken [1]) 'sphere of influence' that is not to be touched. If Mexico signed a military agreement with Russia that involved them establishing forces there - we would be invading imminently. In fact this is exactly what the Cuban Missile Crisis [2] was about. Ukraine (and Taiwan) are not even just proxy wars between the US and Russia/China, but rather they're a proxy war against hegemony. Does the US have the right to setup right on Russia's front door? How about China's? So the one thing I would agree with you is that indeed - the world remains one of the strong picking on the weak. And the last place you ever want to be is caught in the middle of a turf war between two giants. The world would be vastly better for everybody if those giants instead existed in collaboration, or at least healthy competition. One trying to dominate the other is only likely to hurt those caught in the middle. Because if the two giants ever came to unrestrained blows, the entire world would burn. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

simion314 2y ago
This is still bullshit if some EU official comes and speaks in Romania then all the Zeds and MAGAs will claim that all Romanians votes are now invalid and we are actually brainwashed. You guys need to accept the real reality, none of Ruzzian neighbors want to be part of Ruzzia, NONE . Everyone inteligent person is leaving Ruzzia, people in neighboring countries go in EU or West and not Ruzzia. We know better what Ruzzians are capable of, and we know better what we want, no visit from an USaian or Soros can overnight change our minds. I see this with Ruzzians that are USSR nostalgic, they actually think that Moscowites sacrificed their wealth to help everyone else and we just got brainwashed to hate them, the genocides did not happened anfd if they would have happened the victims deserved it.
- somenameforme 2y ago
  The EU or Soros would never have the audacity, or power, to do what the US did. McCain was openly acting as an enemy of the state, as a high profile guest of the state, in plain sight, directly adjacent to the center of the state! That was a massive power play you can only do in a country you have under the heel of your boot.

simion314 2y ago

This is still bullshit if some EU official comes and speaks in Romania then all the Zeds and MAGAs will claim that all Romanians votes are now invalid and we are actually brainwashed. You guys need to accept the real reality, none of Ruzzian neighbors want to be part of Ruzzia, NONE . Everyone inteligent person is leaving Ruzzia, people in neighboring countries go in EU or West and not Ruzzia. We know better what Ruzzians are capable of, and we know better what we want, no visit from an USaian or Soros can overnight change our minds. I see this with Ruzzians that are USSR nostalgic, they actually think that Moscowites sacrificed their wealth to help everyone else and we just got brainwashed to hate them, the genocides did not happened anfd if they would have happened the victims deserved it.

somenameforme 2y ago
The EU or Soros would never have the audacity, or power, to do what the US did. McCain was openly acting as an enemy of the state, as a high profile guest of the state, in plain sight, directly adjacent to the center of the state! That was a massive power play you can only do in a country you have under the heel of your boot.