Ukraine was just sitting there, minding it’s own business trying to genocide Russians and inviting hostile American bases and nuclear weapons inside when out of the blue Russia attacked them!
The way most non-tankies cannot or refuse to understand spheres of influence, encirclement, what it means to have intermediate nuclear missiles along your borders, just staggers me. As long as it’s their team westphalian sovereignty is inviolable.
They understand it when the other guys are doing it though. They understand that Russia flying planes right next to their airspace is a threat. They understand that China pushing out western capital in Africa is threat. They also understand that the USSR was threathening the evil empire by stationin nukes in Cuba, although they are militantly uncurious about what made the USSR and Cuba make that decision.
Ukraine was just sitting there, minding it’s own business trying to genocide Russians and inviting hostile American bases and nuclear weapons inside when out of the blue Russia attacked them!
The way most non-tankies cannot or refuse to understand spheres of influence, encirclement, what it means to have intermediate nuclear missiles along your borders, just staggers me. As long as it’s their team westphalian sovereignty is inviolable.
They understand it when the other guys are doing it though. They understand that Russia flying planes right next to their airspace is a threat. They understand that China pushing out western capital in Africa is threat. They also understand that the USSR was threathening the evil empire by stationin nukes in Cuba, although they are militantly uncurious about what made the USSR and Cuba make that decision.