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by mopsi 2y ago
The US overtly supported and encouraged an effort within Ukraine to overthrow a democratically elected president because he moving more towards Russia than the West. Russia then ended up invading Ukraine for fears of having NATO not on
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What alternatives do you recommend?
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The Ayn Rand types deserve to be reminded that she spent her final years on welfare.
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Where is the Russian fear of NATO in real terms? Why is everyone in Europe building defensive lines on their side of the border with Russia, while Russia has only open fields on its side? Putin's dictatorship is indeed extremely irrita
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Mearsheimer and others, by omission, are denying the influence of past Russian behavior. Why are you focusing on purely hypothetical Russian security concerns instead of the very real security concerns of countries that have been attacked m
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The core argument is nonsense and bears little connection to actual events or motivations. Mearsheimer completely ignores the many nations of Europe, their history and current goals. He reduces the complex web of relations that goes back ma
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Eastern Europe rushed towards NATO as soon as the Russian-controlled Eastern Bloc dictatorships crumbled, to secure themselves from falling prey to Russia ever again. Existing NATO members were for a long time very lukewarm about the idea o
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> What I don't understand is that in the 90's, the NATO agreed that it wouldn't expand it's members to border countries of Russia. Pure myth, refuted by no less than three different generations of Soviet and Russian o
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Finland: got invaded, Russians tried to overrun the entire country and install a puppet government, but eventually managed to capture only a part of Finland that they have not returned to this day. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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How can anyone forcibly issue a passport to someone? By denying medical care and access to essential medications to anyone who does not hold a Russian passport.
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Ukraine can shoot down planes on its own, that needs no foreign assistance. Feels like you're just looking for excuses to sit idle and give the initiative to the aggressor.
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The attempt to rewrite history into "foreign encroachment" is either utterly ignorant of the actual facts, or just bad faith trolling. The reasons why Eastern Europe was very passionate about joining NATO are clear from their hist
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Russia already has its sphere of influence, but it is rapidly shrinking because aligning with Russia offers neither peace nor prosperity nor anything else of value. Politically, economically, scientifically, and culturally, it is a dead end
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Planes stopped flying over Ukrainian-held territory only a few weeks into the invasion. Since then, they've mainly launched glide bombs from far away, due to the high risk of being shot down if they penetrated Ukrainian airspace. There
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Shooting down incoming missiles is not considered an act of war under international law. It falls under self defense. Japan has shot down a number of North Korean missiles and nobody has accused them of declaring war on North Korea.
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Please clarify how NATO encroachment is non-threatening to a Russian nationalism that sees the Russian Empire at its height as a golden age. That's exactly the point: almost all of Eastern Europe rushed into NATO to prevent bec
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"Having studied the Russian language and culture extensively" seems relatively modest compared to having negotiated the withdrawal of Russian forces from Europe (Bildt) or having led the MI6 (Younger). It's like taking progra
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There seem to be at least two kinds of experts. First, there are those who have actually worked as foreign ministers, presidents, chiefs of armed forces, heads of intelligence services, and in other similar positions. Their expertise comes
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At the very least, protecting Ukraine's skies when Russia started targeting its cities with missiles would have been exactly the right move, an appropriate international response to warfare against the civilian population. A huge misse
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Mearsheimer is literally on Russian payroll and the linked video is full of lies. I'll give you one non-political example. At 8:45, he shows a map of Europe. Countries like Finland and Estonia are shown as importing 100% of their natur
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The last time the US had an unambiguous win by fighting was 70 years ago when they got involved in a fight very late. No, it was in 1999. A short aerial bombing campaign that lasted less than 3 months and cost less than 600 lives en
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That's pure wishful thinking. Russia spans 11 time zones, but most of Russia's population lives near Europe, west of the Ural mountains. They have as little to do with China as other people of Europe. The "mental center"
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That's not true. As of 2024-12-31, the US had provided 64bn EUR of military aid to Ukraine, and Europe had provided 62bn. The US had pledged further 66bn and Europe 100bn. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43
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Major amphibious operations take 4-6 months to plan and prepare if rushed. I cannot imagine the Chinese watching the feed from the White House without seeing it as a row of green lights blinking for them. The unholy alliance of tech compani
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Why aren't tech stocks in freefall? Chinese invasion of Taiwan now seems imminent.
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No, there was nothing unconstitutional about the process. The Ukrainian parliament correctly followed the procedure for holding snap elections. Snap elections might be a novel idea for Americans who are used to presidents always serving the
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But it is debunked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986476
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The "2014 coup" excuse has been so thoroughly debunked that anyone who mentions it at this point is either completely out of touch or just malicious.
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> Russia is a nuclear power; do you think Putin is going to risk losing? Judging by the track record so far, we can expect vague comments seething with resentment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_lines_in_the_Russo
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China is now very tightly coupled with Russia and Iran. The biggest threat to US hegemony is not Russia, not by a mile. China has the means, the power and the will to start asserting itself on the global stage. Trump's attitude

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