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> absurdly stupid sanctions on Russian Oil and Gas,

do you want to enable people who wage aggressive wars or what?



Man, that's the kindergaten view of international relations and war. Really, that's not how the real world works and things have a lot more layers than this cheap naivety.

At the bare minimum, if the US can bomb and invade countries thousands of kilometers away from its borders due to their alleged security interests we should take into account the probability that Russia as a nation-state follows a similar logic when dealing with a country that borders them.

It is not like the US is some kind of exceptional entity that have some special rights to act in certain ways that are verboten for other countries.


I speak as a Russian. In the US, you have your own protestors for those issues, which I am not qualified to discuss.


So, you really think there was no reason for alarm with NATO encroachment on Ukraine? You really had no issue with the repression of ethnic russians in regions that historically were Russian before Lenin?


You really had no issue with the repression of ethnic russians ...

Which consisted of what, precisely?

in regions that historically were Russian before Lenin?

Are you suggesting that there's some magical, enduring quality to the Russian Empire's territorial claims? Is every place the Russian Empire managed to sit on for a while ipso facto "historically Russian" -- and we should just accept this description at face value?

And before these regions were supposedly "Russian" -- what were they? What kind of people were living there? What became of them?

Would you refer to Okinawa as "historically Japanese", or Algeria as "historically French"?

Enlighten us, please.


s/b "Enlighten, please"




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