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Good thing the entire world opposed the war when the USA decided to go against the UN vote. Because letting those of hundreds of thousands of innocents die just because the USA are the strongest bully of the planet would be weighting heavily on our conscience otherwise.
Everyone would remember.
And speaking of the war in Ukraine, I truly believe the US provoked Russia. Of course, Russia is responsible for its war crimes, but the US and its allies are the ones who wanted to encircle Russia by expanding NATO eastwards, even after they promised not to.
There was a time when we could have made Russia an ally, but now they are an enemy and aligned with China.
Our politicians either are too stupid, too corrupt, or both.
This is simply not correct, and even Gorbachev has confirmed this. There has never been any agreement stating that NATO is not allowed to accept new members in any particular direction. There were statements made by western politicians but never any pen to paper. The sovereign states that have joined NATO have not done so because of some US campaign or persuasion, but by their own free will. Your statement is indirectly saying that these countries are too dumb to decide for themselves, it's incredibly condescending.
How would the US respond to an enemy alliance incorporating Mexico or Canada?
Thanks, you just confirmed that you shall never trust what America says till you have that in writing.
"Very American, very like!" - Borat
That was at best a narrow window in the 90s. The Russians backed Serbia during the Yugoslav war.
Yeah, there's absolutely no desire from the local populations to join the EU and NATO at all...
That so-called promise is a lie made up more than a decade later. Russia and NATO have in writing[1] that they agree to respect that third countries' are free to choose their allies, and even when asked specifically about Eastern Europe joining NATO in 2004 (which was overwhelmingly their initiative, against the hesitancy of existing members), Putin personally said that it's fine and Kremlin's official press release repeated it, without any mention of any broken promises or other grievances.[2]
[1] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_25468.htm
It's disingenuous to claim that the US and Russia are exactly the same and that they both fought for the same things in both wars. The war in Ukraine is a land grab for Putin to expand his power.
The United Nation voted against the war, and the US went anyway, under the pretense there was a link with 9/11, which we know now is BS.
If Russia did this, you would call it what it is: a bunch of greedy bullies that seized the opportunity provided by a terrorist attack to justify the occupation of a sovereign country because it's a military and economic winning move.
But apparently the US gets a pass at being a monster.
Propaganda is when other countries sell a narrative.
To justify the atrocities of the west is the height of hypocrisy.
Even since the fall of the USSR, Russia was not at war only in 1998 when their economy collapsed in the aftermath of Asian financial crisis and they simply couldn't afford it.
And the list doesn't include covert operations all around the world. For example, Latin America in the 20th century was greatly affected by them, Nicaragua in particular. Deep involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is missing too.
- War in Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF; March 2003 - November 2011) ...
- War in Afghanistan. Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF; October, 2001 – December, 2014) ...
- Persian Gulf War (1991) ...
- Vietnam War (1962 - 1973) ...
- Korean War (1950 - 1953)
And this does not include things like coups in South America, or the fact they are surrounding Iran with missiles.
The USA is among the biggest war mongers of the world, they have killing millions since 1950, and everybody seems to just go "meh".
War against China in Mongolia
War against Georgia
War against Finland
War against Insurgenst in eastern europe
War against Insurgents in ukraine
War against Checheyna
War in SouthKorea
War in Vietnam
Bloody beasts those empireus..
Stating you have only being 80% the serial killer that jack the ripper was is not really what I would strive for in life.
The dosage makes a thing a poison, but this beast can not be dosaged, as the lack of self-control is in its very heart.
A lot of people still think the USA are angels liberating the world.
That is “mostly” just a PR narrative. The notion that it should be accepted at face value is farcical.
The United States has killed well over a quarter million Arab civilians, many of those directly through war crimes, in an ethnically motivated invasion. Explain what isn't genocide about that.