Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "ABC News Live: Latest on the war in Ukraine" video.
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We should try to understand what’s going on here, instead of just calling the shots for one side or the other. Given that America and her partners have the most egregious record of meddling in the affairs of other sovereign territories, regardless of whether these territories wanted this or not, we cannot be surprised if Putin/Russia moves on a neighbouring country giving strong signals it wants to ally itself with the West and not Russia. Our double standards here are staggering. As far as I can see, Putin is only doing what the West has done for the past 250 years and more. If Putin agreed a deal with Canada and/or Mexico to install weapons on their soil directly targeting America, I doubt very much that America wouldn’t act, and very probably violently, based on its past record. Therefore, why are we surprised when Putin does what most every other place on this planet would’ve done, given what was transpiring in Ukraine and their direction facing West: that is, acting in his own perceived self-interest? And particularly when he sees Ukraine as a kind of renegade cousin who has spurned motherland Russia. It goes without saying that what Putin is doing is wrong, but it’s understandable, even if you are not Putin.
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