• davel@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      Almost 25 years of that attitude from the US is how this war started in the first place[1], and now hundreds of thousands are dead or injured and millions are displaced.

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        Every recrimination has an equal and opposite recrimination. In the end, we are where we are and every country chooses how to play their own hand by themselves.

        Russian leadership knew what they were doing when they attacked a foreign sovereign country in an act overt aggression.

        I’m sure there are plenty of rationalizations they tell themselves, but it’s not the US that “started this” in any meaningful way.

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        You will find that the actual cause for the dead, injured, and displaced, is that Russia invaded Ukraine.

        The simplest fix would be for the Russians to go home.

        The more permanent fix would be for the Russians to go home, and have Vladimir Putin accidentally fall out of a window very high up. That would be reasonable, given how many men he basically threw into a meat grinder.

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      “Spokesperson, issue more empty threats! Surely this time they will finally take me seriously!”

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        You’d think the West would have taken it seriously after Crimea was annexed. But even after losing most of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, there are still imperial core labor aristocrat clowns like you, still failing to read the room.