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Nope. You post a totally undefined statement & expect people to believe it w/o justifying it in the present. Not our job to look them up. Up to you to be clear. Vs. "justified reasons", you could post one - as easy as "justified" - & say there are more. Also, you could link a previous post since you know what you're referring to , not us. But we're not doing your work for you. So the questions stand & w/o specific response, they're useless.
And that's supposed to be a justified reason?From 2018
Russia's "Dead Hand" Nuclear Doomsday Weapon is Back
If the United States starts deploying intermediate-range missiles in Europe, Russia will consider adopting a doctrine of a preemptive nuclear strike.
The only think specific you mentioned was NATO. Ukraine joining NATO doesn't give Russia a right to attack them. NATO has never been an aggressor, ever.
What does that have to do with Ukraine? Ukraine isn't even mentioned.From 2018
Russia's "Dead Hand" Nuclear Doomsday Weapon is Back
If the United States starts deploying intermediate-range missiles in Europe, Russia will consider adopting a doctrine of a preemptive nuclear strike.
It gives context to Russia's mindset after the U.S. helped lead a coup in Ukraine. They saw the writing on the wall back then and had been preparing accordingly.
A coup? Lol, you mad a Russian puppet is no longer in power? As for their mindset, that gives them no right to attack Ukraine, none whatsoever. There are so many holes in that logic its pathetic.
Was the sovereignty of Ukraine respected in 2014 when the US and EU helped overthrow the Ukrainian government? The US disrespects sovereign nations all the time. The world doesn’t work like that.
The modern American has no time for researching complex topics. If it can't be expressed in meme form then they simply conform to whatever the parrots on TV tell them to believe.
Oh please. You're not some how above people or more informed simply because they disagree with you. I know your arguments very well and I disagree.
There in lies another issue. The Ukraine isn't a monolithic society. It's borders were redrawn by Russia during their communist reign and non native Ukrainians were relocated there while native Ukrainians were relocated elsewhere.
And that relationship almost started a nuclear war. The US wasn’t happy about it. They didn’t just act like it was no problem. The US tried to overthrow Castro multiple times. So yes, the US did think it was justified in invading Cuba.
The US government sent a drone strike on children in Afghanistan and lied about it just a few months ago.
Yes, the US did do that. And Cuba, an ally of a nuclear super power, continues to exist just off the coast of the Florida Keys.
They didn’t do it intentionally. It was a mistake. A terrible one. Russia does it on Purpose. You are shameless.
I’m sorry you believe what the government does in wars is righteous. We bombed a doctors’ office that killed 42 people. Obama had a 16 year old US citizen killed in a drone strike. Trump had a US citizen killed in a drone strike.
Nope. No encroaching. Nothing has been done to Russia's territory - which is the definition of encroaching.
Maybe encroaching was the wrong word, but Ukraine is a neighbor to Russia. Obviously they aren’t going to be too pleased with having a pro-Western government established in Ukraine by the US and EU.
And leftists want to do nothing but to make issues more complex than they are.
Change your name. JB is a good guy and doesn’t need his name desecrated.
IOW, they are multi-ethnic & accepting of all those ethnicities. You have a problem with that?
Why? What's that to them? Already have some in Baltic states and Poland. How has that hurt Russia?
Does that justify invasion and killing citizens? I thought you didn't like war? But you seem to be justifying an offensive strike to displace a neighboring government that is not friendly. So you might not like it but you are justifying it with that?
I don’t know if Russia feels the West is going to try to invade them or not. From what I’ve read, Russia said from the beginning they won’t tolerate NATO expansion and things like that. I know Ukraine has access to natural gas that Russia is interested in considering that’s a huge part of their economy.
I’m not justifying it. I think Putin is wring for what he’s doing. My point is I’m more interested in trying to understand why this is happening. Trying to understand why it’s happening, isn’t supporting it.
