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@JohanDanielsson8802 No, there fucking are not pragmatic reasons for toning down the rhetoric against Putin. And claiming that the USA cannot defeat Russia is comical nonsense.
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@BIIGLOO-r3q Bullshit. The Minsk agreements are to Ukraine what the Convention of Peking was to China. An illegitimate agreement imposed at gunpoint by a colonialist empire. Russia is not entitled to a "sphere of influence". Russia is not entitled to dominate Ukraine or to annex its territory.
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@BIIGLOO-r3q John Mearsheimer has consistently been the wrongest person on the planet when it comes to Russia and Ukraine. His position is basically that Russia is entitled to be an empire and force Ukraine into subservience. That only big countries with huge militaries are allowed to be sovereign.
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@Basedeath No, Russia does not have any such right. Ukraine is outside of Russia's borders, and thus it's none of Russia's damned business whether Ukraine decides to join NATO. If Mexico were to join a military alliance with Russia or China, would you consider it justified for the USA to invade them and try to impose regime change in response?
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@YaKnowWhatIming Absolutely none of that ever happened. Ukraine's government never was overthrown. Impeaching the president is not overthrowing the government. Ukraine's government has all along been elected by the Ukrainian people. And Ukraine was still neutral in 2014 when Russia invaded them.
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@rlud304 You can oppose US hegemony and still be completely immoral. As you're demonstrating by supporting Russian hegemony. Empire is bad no matter how is doing it.
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@danzel1157 That's the exact opposite of reality. "NATO expanding eastward", meaning Eastern European countries begging to be admitted into NATO so they won't get conquered by Russia again, has made war much less likely. Without "NATO expansion" as Russia calls it, they would've already used invasions or threats of invasions to dominate the Baltic states and the former Warsaw Pact members. Just look at what they've done with multiple invasions of Georgia and Ukraine, which made the mistake of not joining NATO. And Russia is not a "peer rival", they're just a regional power with dreams of restoring their former empire.
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@rlud304 Yes, countries wanted to join. All of the nations that joined NATO after the fall of the USSR had to heavily lobby the US and Western Europe to allow them into NATO.
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@danzel1157 No, we most certainly are not "on the brink of WWIII". That's the bullshit narrative that Russia is peddling, because they want everybody to be afraid of their bluffs.
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@rlud304 So you disagree? You think that it is possible for empire to be good? That it's only bad when America and Israel do it?
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@rlud304 And that was exactly my point. Imperialism is always bad. And somebody who only opposes some imperialism is not an anti-imperialist.
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