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Re:Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West's Fault (2014) [pdf] by mjh2539 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:24PM (#30461157)
The author doesn't care what Ukrainians want, and neither does Russia or the United States for that matter. He's a political realist. I think the author would say that you have the right to self-determination if you actually possess the political capital to have the right to begin with. It is obvious that the Ukrainians do not (whereas the Poles, French, Germans, etc. do).
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Re:Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West's Fault (2014) [pdf] by wonnage on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:05PM (#30461576)
People are very much missing this point; there is no value judgement here over what "should" be happening.

There has always been clear red line; if NATO is attacked, we're starting WWIII. If a non-NATO friendly country is attacked, we'll complain loudly and declare sanctions.

Ukraine is not in NATO and we should've behaved accordingly (i.e, not sponsor a coup)

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Re:Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West's Fault (2014) [pdf] by glogla on Friday February 25, 2022 @06:58AM (#30466331)
"We" (whoever that is) did not "sponsor a coup". Stop spreading misinformation. What happened was that the Ukrainian people were sick of Russian puppet and kicked him out - at great cost, he murdered a lot of them.
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Re:Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West's Fault (2014) [pdf] by gutitout on Saturday February 26, 2022 @03:12AM (#30475995)
It wouldn’t surprise me if it was a coup. Don’t forget Biden and his sons “business” there. It’s at the very least a valid theory.
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Re:Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West's Fault (2014) [pdf] by glogla on Friday February 25, 2022 @06:59AM (#30466333)
What a monstrous attitude.
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Re:Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West's Fault (2014) [pdf] by scaramanga on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:45AM (#30468488)
Luckily it is, essentialy, the basis of customary international law, otherwise the entire world would disintegrate in to ethnic violence until we ended up with perfectly aligned ethno-states rather than the borders we have now, the majority of which are in place as the relics of failed empires.
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