In your post, to which I replied, you explicitly emphasised ‘America’ (~ the USA) as a helpful friend, even as an ‘ally’ of Ukraine. (There is no alliance between Ukraine and the USA, at least not one that is binding under international law). It therefore makes sense to address the motives of...
Pointing out that the world public (again, NOT you, personally!), which is discussing in this thread in extracts about how evil and mean Russia is, is acting duplicitously is certainly not a waste of time, but a necessary corrective. It's a bit of a shame that you feel personally attacked...
A list of wars with Russia's involvement is only moderately suitable for the defence of NATO, if I may only point to Guantánamo and the Kosovo war as examples.
The Soviet Union (and thus the Cold War, which for decades was the justification for the supposed necessity of NATO) has no longer existed since 1991. There is no reason to see Russia as a renamed Soviet Union.
That's right. I just notice from time to time that attacks on other states are defended by the ‘West’ (by which I don't mean you in particular) as completely appropriate when ‘the right people’ do it.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Crimea was an autonomous republic until it was de facto annexed by the right-wing populist government of Ukraine in 1995.
NATO was founded as a military "defence" against communist and Soviet states. Source: NATO.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_139339.htm
If I were Russian president, I would also be a little worried about the annual display of weapons by a hostile military alliance on my borders...
What is currently happening in Ukraine is that NATO wants to fight ‘the bad guy’ down to the last Ukrainian. Only ‘the others’ are dying. Sahra Wagenknecht, like many other communists, socialists and indeed social democrats in Germany, is of the opinion that sending more and more weapons to the...
There is a new album by the German krautrock legend Faust. It is just as amazing as ever.
https://faust.bandcamp.com/album/blickwinkel-curated-by-zappi-diermaier
I seriously wonder what the Western European states expected when they continued to threaten the nuclear power Russia with the help of NATO.
NATO: Look, Russia, we have huge arsenals of weapons and we're already practising a bit with them. We call that ‘Defender’. Know that we will not hesitate...