EDIT: No idea why my messages don't show when logged now, but they do when not logged.
it's a bunch of american le redditors who until four days ago had no idea Ukraine even existed because they were 8 years old the last time it was in the news, and will forget about it three days after it gets old and bumped off the headlines by the latest manufactured crisis.
You could say the same for those who claim here that this is a fight against globohomo or whatever. Look at the guy in a poster above, sitting at +30/0, proud that he didn't know where Ukraine was until 5 days ago and talking about this being an "internal USSR regional dispute". He's proud of being ignorant AND manages to greatly demonstrate that in the line right after. Seriously guys? Why take a side then. No different than the Redditors in the OP.
Still, the user I was replying to said:
It's not anyone's fight but Russia/Ukraine's.
Which is literally false. Russian attacking another sovereign nation is a lot of people's fight.
NATO is not an alliance, it is an USA military organization used to control and dominate its members
Answer me this. If Russia wasn't a constant threat, do you think that the Baltic countries would have joined the NATO?
It's not anyone's fight but Russia/Ukraine's.
Surely you'd understand why people in Eastern Europe are concerned about this, right? Russia invading another country raises all sorts of alarms in the Baltics, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia and so on. So not, it's not just Russia and Ukraine's fight.
What is in the OP is organic because this is the main thing happening right now. It's at a much larger scale than in 2014 and it's the first major European conflict since the Yugoslavian war. Of course it's going to be headlines everywhere and that will reflect anywhere else. Most sites that are politically-related are now inundated with this topic.
It made me even register here, after having lurked for a long time and I was even part of the original GG-related subreddit, which had a misspelling on its title. That's the state of it. It's a major thing.
What's your argument exactly? Do you think that Russia could legally annex Ida-Viru or Latgale as well?