Comments by "Plato\x27s Cave alum" (@platoscavealum902) on "Benjamin Netanyahu on War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips" video.

  1. Putin could have allowed "Russians" who supposedly felt oppressed in Donbas to immigrate to Russia. It would have been very inexpensive compared to the cost of war. In reality, Putin manufactured the Donbas situation to later justify his full scale war with Ukraine. A war which he badly miscalculated. He thought that it would be as easy as taking Crimea in 2014.
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  2.  @garymac5571 , countries choose to join NATO to protect themselves from Russian aggression. History has shown that Russia only invades countries that are not part of NATO.
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  3. Morally, Russia’s invasion can’t be justified by stating "others" have done it. For example, If you steal something — the fact that "others" have done it too — will not exonerate you from your own decision to commit a crime. Historically, if invading countries was a mistake, then it follows that it is still a mistake today — even when you’re Putin. It doesn’t make any sense to justify Putin’s mistake by pointing out that countless others have made the same mistake. It only highlights that Putin is so incompetent that he couldn’t learn from the mistakes of others or history.
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