I don't feel a need to take a side in everyone's civil war. Which is what I consider Ukraine's situation to be. Russia's justification sounds, uh, fine. There are lots of people worth supporting in the world. People don't usually choose which war to go to based on the best justification. So I'm not overly impressed by Russia's escalation of the war, either. Like, I'm not sure that sending a tank column at Kiev was the best way to protect people in Donbas. I think you'll see that played out. At some point even good reasons become self serving.
Of course in Ukraine, we have a country that is not ready to negotiate. It ain't Russia that is saying they want to occupy all of Ukraine. It's Ukraine saying they won't give up a bit of what was their territory just now. All Russia can do is give up or beat on them until they agree to come to terms.
almost like russia's invasion is largely justified considering the history of the last 30 years
I don't feel a need to take a side in everyone's civil war. Which is what I consider Ukraine's situation to be. Russia's justification sounds, uh, fine. There are lots of people worth supporting in the world. People don't usually choose which war to go to based on the best justification. So I'm not overly impressed by Russia's escalation of the war, either. Like, I'm not sure that sending a tank column at Kiev was the best way to protect people in Donbas. I think you'll see that played out. At some point even good reasons become self serving.
Of course in Ukraine, we have a country that is not ready to negotiate. It ain't Russia that is saying they want to occupy all of Ukraine. It's Ukraine saying they won't give up a bit of what was their territory just now. All Russia can do is give up or beat on them until they agree to come to terms.
i'd largely ignore it too except the government is funding one side of the war at my expense.
Not ignore. But I'd rather the US offer humanitarian aid than weapons.
Careful there, you might give SupremeReader a brain aneurysm with those fighting words.