From the guy’s own mouth.

  • Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.mlOP
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    “The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn’t sign that.”

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      “Don’t allow others to join your defense pact or we’ll demonstrate why it’s necessary in the first place.”

      Perfectly sane logic. Nothing strange.

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            You mean that it’s bad that the USA threatened to nuke Russia when Russia was putting missiles in Cuba, or when Russia invaded Ukraine when USA said they would put missiles in Ukraine? Was it bad the USA threatened nuclear war because Cuba wanted to defend itself from a belligerent neighbour? Russia backed off, should the US back off from Ukraine? Or “this is different”.

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              Was it bad that Russia threatened nuclear way because Ukraine wanted to defend itself from a belligerent neighbour?

              The USA doing bad things in the past doesn’t make it alright for Russia to do the same bad shit.

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              It isn’t a team sport. We aren’t children. Both can, in fact, be wrong, and neither justifies the other.

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          So you’re alright with the way the US treats Cuba then? The USA did make it very clear that they wouldn’t tolerate Warsaw Pact expansionism near their borders, and Cuba could have just surrendered after the Bay of Pigs invasion to avoid all the negative consequences that have resulted from Cuba’s decision to oppose the freedom loving USA.

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              Yeah and the US made it very clear that they didn’t want USSR expansionism near their borders. Doesn’t make what the US has done to Cuba alright, just like it doesn’t make what Russia has done in Ukraine alright.