@MannekenPisNAFO@MondoABx@SustainableSong That’s besides the point. Even with all the extra costs deducted, Canada would keep a lot more if it had a Norwegian model.
@cantelopebandit@SquirrelMacro@Glenn_Diesen Those lands were historically part of Russia before the Soviet Union. Crimea, for example, was almost entirely Russian. That’s why entire units switched allegiance and there was no bloodshed. In the Donbas Russian-speaking Ukrainian forces defied their own government.
@cantelopebandit@SquirrelMacro@Glenn_Diesen What’s a Vatnik?
The 14K Ukrainians murdered by their own government for being ethnic Russian are the victims. But you are not defending them, so which side are you on?
The US went to war for a much lower casualty count after 9/11. Where they Vatnik?
@cantelopebandit@SquirrelMacro@Glenn_Diesen You didn’t answer.
Anyone can make up claims like that to change the subject. But let’s test it: why would Russia do that when the then president was allegedly their man? Who got to power after Maidan?
On the other hand, there’s Rand’s 2019 memo, which has not been denied.
@cantelopebandit@SquirrelMacro@Glenn_Diesen Are you talking about Israel?
Because Eastern Ukrainians have always been Russified, unless you’re not familiar with their history.
In fact, there were 14K Russian-speaking Ukrainians killed by the Ukrainian government for speaking Russian. This is the legal rationale for the SMO
@cantelopebandit@Inusannon1@SquirrelMacro@Glenn_Diesen So the intervention of US in Venezuela is also Russia’s fault?
And Irak “invited” the US to control their sovereignty, oil and bank accounts?
And Ukraine agreeing to host NATO’s nuclear weapons is nothing like the Cuban missile crisis in 62?
Can you ask yourself a 2nd opinion?
@SquirrelMacro@Glenn_Diesen Fair enough. Should the rules apply to all countries that commit acts of aggression or only to Russia? How many countries would be banned from the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup?
@Tollak@Glenn_Diesen You seemed to be very convinced. What if history proved that it was NATO who planned to destroy Russia via Ukraine way before 2022?