• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That’s a fallacious argument based on a false premise. Russia has always been clear that their concern has been NATO expansion. Ukraine would have lost none of its territory had it chose to remain neutral.

    Furthermore, plenty of western experts warned about this literally for decades, yet those concerns were ignored.

    Meanwhile, it’s kind of funny of you to talk about setting some sort of precedent when the west has set it a long time ago.

    Western nations have invaded Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria just to name a few. This was done unilaterally without UN authorization. In fact, Russian playbook in Ukraine is directly modeled on what NATO did in Yugoslavia where they recognized breakaway regions and had them invite NATO for support.

    What you’re essentially saying here is that it’s fine for the west to do these things, but we should bring the world to a brink of a nuclear holocaust when other countries do the same.

    The reality is that the west has no moral high ground here unless western countries change their own behavior.