Comments by "" (@timogul) on "WSJ News"
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@oxanasmith6512 Or, perhaps the actual situation was not as bad as Russia presented it to be. You do understand that their goal was to take Ukraine for themselves, why do you assume that they are reliable narrators? The one thing that Russia did not try was to walk away. There are plenty of people in the US of Mexican descent. In many cases, these people have been mistreated. Do you believe Mexico would be justified in using that as a pretext to annex Texas? I am not taking an absolutist view that one side is always bad and the other always good. I am taking the rationalist viewpoint that the evidence indicates that Russia has always taken the worst stance in global politics. They have the potential to be good, they just choose not to be. It is not absolutist to recognize reality for what it is, it would be idealistic, at best, to imagine a world in which they are better than they actually are, and present that as though it were fact. In the reality of the situation, this is entirely Russia's fault, and they cannot achieve any gains as a result of it.
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@oxanasmith6512 Ukraine did not do the things you claimed. Perhaps some people within Ukraine did some of those things, but those people were accountable to Ukrainian law, not to foreign assault. Ukraine is certainly a better country for its Russian people than Russia is to its own people, is that an excuse for people to invade Russia and depose Putin?
As for Russia's security concerns, they are not valid. There is zero chance of any outside country attacking Russia except in self defense or the defense of another nation. So long as Russia does not wage war, there is no chance of war being waged against them. Ukraine being allied with the west in no way changes the military calculus, Russia would be hopeless in any such conflict whether Ukraine is allied with the west or with them. This never had anything to do with security, it only had to do with power and control. They wanted to control and benefit from Ukraine's peacetime state. That choice is not theirs to make, it is Ukraine's. If they want to be allied to Ukraine, they should have done so using gifts, not threats. This is entirely black and white, you just choose the wrong side of it.
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