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		denis1 on March 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia > From Russia’s point of view, they had many reasons to annex Crimea. Oh they sure did, and all of them were of the militaristic and imperialistic variety. > Having studied this situation a bit, my conclusion is that both sides are to blame How can Ukraine/the West possibly be responsible for Russia launching an imperialistic annexation war? Nothing can excuse that.

ceilingcorner on March 2, 2022 [–]

It’s a bit too complex to summarize, but if you study NATO’s actions in the region, you’ll see that we helped set up this precarious situation.

Again, as I said in my initial comment, most of the blame here is on Russia. Nonetheless, the world isn’t black and white.

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