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Meanwhile, the US was entirely passive, didn't operate bases anywhere and didn't invade anything. Totally relaxed.

And definitely didn't station its own or NATO military forces and installations on the border with Russia and in Turkey in direct contravention of agreements with Russia.

No sir, they definitely didn't do that before Russia countered by doing the same.

Nope. We have always been at war with Eurasia. Move along citizen.

My country used to have a direct border with the USSR. We'd much rather have NATO defensive instalations and troops on our territory, rather than Russian tanks and little green men with guns. The last time that happened we had 50 years of communism, the USSR took away several parts of our territory, effectively plundered our country's resources and invaded neighbouring countries in order to "restore order".

That's great, but it's irrelevant.

They broke an agreement by doing this, then condemned Russia for reacting in the same way.

It's simple hypocrisy.

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