Russia Ukraine war

Originally posted by NoImSpartacus: ↑

Your following statement doesn't support your claims

"I thought Russia is an essential ingredient for balance of power".Given that you seem to understand the importance of "Balance of Power" in geopolitics (esp where nuclear-armed Superpowers are involved) I'm surprised that you're not outraged that in 2008 America announced that it would upset that balance by admitting both Georgia and Ukraine into NATO. Not only did Russia register its objections at the time but all the major EU powers did as well. Why? Because it was clearly exposing Russia to a significant imbalance of power and everyone understood it at the time. But you, it seems, totally missed the point. This was a provocative act by the USA/NATO. They knew full well that it would place Russia in an extremely vulnerable position and that there was a high risk that the nuclear-armed Russia would not accept it. AND YET the American Bully went ahead and pushed it anyway. BUT who do you criticize for this war? Russia! And you dare to say it was unprovoked. This is why Russia MUST win this war. There is no way in the world America/NATO are fit to lead the world in any capacity and your inability to blame them for provoking this war tells me that this is really about your sense of superiority. Even though America/NATO were wrong, how dare the Russians try and tell us what to do. Despicable!

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I'm surprised that you're not outraged that in 2008 America announced that it would upset that balance by admitting both Georgia

I'm surprised you'd make such a completely FALSE claim......US did not say that ....it's is not in their power to do that and of course neither country WAS admitted into NATO by 2014 or even now .

NATO membership requires every other member to agree .....many NATO members were against it

but even so,
which allies countries choose does not give russia any right at all to invade them ....nor steal their land

....and forget the old paradigm that russia is a superpower ....they are not !
You can make a case for China - not russia .
We have many countries that at one time were great powers , Austria , Ottoman empire , France , Britain etc ......things change .....russia is the fifth largest economy in Europe and their army has been proved to be rather poor .

All russia has is nukes and should not trying to blackmail other nations wioth them ......russia need to have their expansion stopped here !