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minus-squareSkua@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down11·8 months agoNo, demanding your neighbours all remain weak enough for you to continue bullying is not perfectly reasonable at all
minus-squareSkua@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down12·8 months agoAll of the countries near Russia that joined NATO did so because they already have their biggest aggressor on their doorsteps.
minus-squareSkua@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down9·8 months agoIf buying stuff from the other side is your yardstick, NATO clearly wasn’t a threat to Russia. Germany, Italy, France, and America were all some of Russia’s largest import sources in 2021.
minus-squarewildncrazyguy@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down8·8 months agoYep, those Russian tanks that crossed into Ukrainian sovereign land were tanks of peace.
minus-squareGamma@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-28 months agoThose paratroopers were there to peacefully take the airport too
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·8 months agoOh cool, then neither is aggressor. Since they were both doing business with each other. Because apparently that’s how it works.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoFunctionally illiterate troll does not understand “your argument is self-defeating nonsense” unless it’s spelled out. And I’m putting a lot of faith in the implication you understand it even now.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoYes. Creating co-dependencies and peacetime ties, in hopes of keeping relations normal and peaceful.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoBelligerently existing near the border, how dare they. Did you see what they were wearing?
No, demanding your neighbours all remain weak enough for you to continue bullying is not perfectly reasonable at all
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All of the countries near Russia that joined NATO did so because they already have their biggest aggressor on their doorsteps.
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If buying stuff from the other side is your yardstick, NATO clearly wasn’t a threat to Russia. Germany, Italy, France, and America were all some of Russia’s largest import sources in 2021.
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Yep, those Russian tanks that crossed into Ukrainian sovereign land were tanks of peace.
Those paratroopers were there to peacefully take the airport too
Oh cool, then neither is aggressor. Since they were both doing business with each other. Because apparently that’s how it works.
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Functionally illiterate troll does not understand “your argument is self-defeating nonsense” unless it’s spelled out.
And I’m putting a lot of faith in the implication you understand it even now.
Yes. Creating co-dependencies and peacetime ties, in hopes of keeping relations normal and peaceful.
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Belligerently existing near the border, how dare they. Did you see what they were wearing?
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Word salad.