just understand that 100% of the responsibility for said conflict is on the aggressor
Not a Russian shill, but what do you think the US's response would have been if Russia had spent the last 20 years getting all of it's neighbors to join an anti-US alliance, culminating in bragging that Canada was about to join too?
We almost started WWII when we placed tactical nukes in Turkey and Russia reciprocated by putting some in Cuba. If you think we wouldn't invade and murder the shit out of Canada in that situation you're not a student of history.
Courting Ukraine and intimating that they would be granted NATO membership caused this war. The US and Zelensky fucked around and found out.
Repeatedly slapping a country in the face works if you can keep it down. It was impractical for the Germans after 1919 (at least, the allies did not have the will to do it), and it was a highly dubious proposition after 1991 for Russia.
Found out what exactly? That Russia isn't even a regional power at this point? That Putin had no idea about the state of the Russian armed forces or the will of the Ukrainian people such that he initiated a war that he can't win?
Not a Russian shill, but what do you think the US's response would have been if Russia had spent the last 20 years getting all of it's neighbors to join an anti-US alliance, culminating in bragging that Canada was about to join too?
We almost started WWII when we placed tactical nukes in Turkey and Russia reciprocated by putting some in Cuba. If you think we wouldn't invade and murder the shit out of Canada in that situation you're not a student of history.
Courting Ukraine and intimating that they would be granted NATO membership caused this war. The US and Zelensky fucked around and found out.
Nah dude repeatedly slapping Russia in the face in no way escalated this conflict
Repeatedly slapping a country in the face works if you can keep it down. It was impractical for the Germans after 1919 (at least, the allies did not have the will to do it), and it was a highly dubious proposition after 1991 for Russia.
It was a bold move, Cotton. Let's see how this plays out.
Found out what exactly? That Russia isn't even a regional power at this point? That Putin had no idea about the state of the Russian armed forces or the will of the Ukrainian people such that he initiated a war that he can't win?