And yet Kremlin can't stop from propping up the fascist Legionnaires in Romania "for democracy".
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So Russia is going to invade Latvia next?
I hope this is a joke. I mean, it's not 100% impossible, but to compare it as 'next target after Ukraine' is straight childish. You sure do know what would mean war with Nato 🌍🌋
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For sure, countries need to look inward and start digesting that many people ate the onion in the first half of the 40s. Not because we need justice for the deaths of local minorities commited by nationals, but because this type of behaviour causes great trauma not just for the victims, but the aggressors. They pass this trauma down and it remains alive in current generations. It usually doesn't even manifest itself as outright racism, just lots of anger issues in general (I guess this part is anecdotal).
All that being said, fuck Russia for bringing this up now. They went in to Ukraine under the flag of denazification. But Latvia is in Nato, so I don't really see this as a cassus beli, but more of sowing division in EU.
Trauma? They honor their nazis there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiQVVUL6iZA&t=10s
Same in the other Baltic countries.
And most of all Ukraine.
You can deny that all you want.
Maybe the time for mutual understanding has passed.
If you feel nazis are your main baddie, it might be better to understand what makes them tick. If not for empathy, then for hitting where it hurts.
Why do you say I am denying the presence of nazis? They are usually a niche demographic, but present in any country. I am not saying let the bastards speak hate with impunity.
"They went in to Ukraine under the flag of denazification. "
You said that as if it wasn't true and stopping the ethnic cleansing of the large Russian speaking population wasn't valid enough reason in itself.
The other reason was demilitarisation.
Also a valid reason since NATO expansion right next to them, undoubtably with nukes, is an existential threat.
Russia gave them plenty of chances to prevent war but they didn't listen.
Never intended to honor the Minsk accords, as Merkel admitted, and only used it to buid up their army.
It was the west that started this with their regime change coup and wanted this to happen.
A proxy to be used and then thrown away.
It is their usual MO.
Everything you say could be true. Just like the Ukranian propaganda. More probably there are kernels of truth, blown up on both sides.
Just from my personal view, I feel a Russian army moving towards Europe gives me more angst than some very problematic Ukranian language laws. I remember the laws being in the news in Hungary waaaay back in the day, maybe even before Maidan, but I wasn't really paying attention to happenings at the time.
While it's true both sides would use propaganda it looks like you're turning around the facts.
It's NATO that despite their promise has moved further east since the german reunification and are now right on the Russian border.
It's Russia that should and do feel threathened.
The angst you feel is a result of more red scare/the Russians are coming propaganda.
If anything you should be scared of 'our' side risking war.
It's about more than "very problematic Ukranian language laws", they literally sent nazis to ethnic cleanse them and they burnt protesters alive in Odessa for protesting. and no that wasn't before the Maidan coup.
Here are some western reports from before the 2022 war when they didn't get too much attention in the press and before they started to claim Russia attacked 'unprovoked' and there certainly weren't any fascists in Ukraine.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/07/16/ukrainian-far-right-extremists-receive-state-funds-to-teach-patriotism/ https://apimagesblog.com/blog/2018/11/12/training-kids-to-kill-at-ukrainian-nationalist-camp
Anyone who paid attention from 2014 or before would know what happened.
It's very clear and despite being from the west with all its biased news I still know there is one clear guilty side.
I do understand how Russia feels threatened by Nato expansion, but the many 'buffer states' chose to be part of a defense alliance by there own will.
But the Russian reasons are pluralized now. Not only is it Nato expanding, but they are also doing everyone a favor by killing nazis again. The first one might be a true threat to Russian interests, the second one seems to be moral justification.
I appreciate you taking the time to explain these stuff and give links. Just based on these facts you provided, I might be convinced. But there is an extra layer of bias in me that will be hard to scrub, and we need to bring Orbán into the mix for me to explain. So I've seen first hand what Orbán did to his country under his 14 year, near totalitarian reign. Orbán is playing for the russian side. Birds of a feather..
Even though I know most politicians are trash, I'd rather be under the thumb of capitalism, than a vassal of Russia. I don't want small kings around, who have it right by might. And that is what Russia is doing now. Maybe US and Europe too, so who knows. It's a shame diplomacy fell through.
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The nukes have been an existential that since the 50s...
Has Russia even attempted to make a public case for Ukrainians perpetrating genocide at the UN?
LOL are you really claiming it wouldn't matter where you place nukes?
So the US was just being silly then when Russia wanted to put them in Cuba as retaliation for them putting them in Turkey?
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