we are defending not just Ukrainian independence, but we're defecting a rule – we are defending a rules-based system that says, might doesn't make right, you can't just extinguish your neighbor.
Ah, got it. What does a "rules-based system" say about an anti-Russian alliance making promises that it will not grow and then it spends the next 20 years growing? Your style of "diplomacy" literally caused this by recruiting all of Russia's neighbors into an alliance against it.
an anti-Russian alliance making promises that it will not grow
No such promise was ever made.
Even if it was, since Russia did not give anything in exchange, any such promise would not be enforceable.
Russia caused the NATO expansion by acting like a warmonger and bullying its neighbors.
Your style of "diplomacy" literally caused this by recruiting all of Russia's neighbors into an alliance against it.
cool. cool. cool. not true at all, of course, but I'm happy with the outcome: Russia's imperial ambitions dying on the fields of Ukraine. If you want to believe that was all some 4d chess from the West, you go ahead and believe it. Russia will still be crippled and a has-been and your copes won't matter.
It’s crazy to see someone twist themselves into pretzels trying to justify their continued belief that the Zionist faggot tranny niggerloving Iraq-invading American empire represents the good guys.
Ah, got it. What does a "rules-based system" say about an anti-Russian alliance making promises that it will not grow and then it spends the next 20 years growing? Your style of "diplomacy" literally caused this by recruiting all of Russia's neighbors into an alliance against it.
No such promise was ever made.
Even if it was, since Russia did not give anything in exchange, any such promise would not be enforceable.
Russia caused the NATO expansion by acting like a warmonger and bullying its neighbors.
cool. cool. cool. not true at all, of course, but I'm happy with the outcome: Russia's imperial ambitions dying on the fields of Ukraine. If you want to believe that was all some 4d chess from the West, you go ahead and believe it. Russia will still be crippled and a has-been and your copes won't matter.
It’s crazy to see someone twist themselves into pretzels trying to justify their continued belief that the Zionist faggot tranny niggerloving Iraq-invading American empire represents the good guys.