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The Ukrainians are suffering because their leaders are corrupt. No other reason. If Canada or Mexico were stupid enough to do what the Ukrainians did and have done for more than a decade, the Americans would have done worse to them than the Russians have done in Ukraine.
Tough having a powerful neighbour but only absolute idiots are stupi…
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The Ukrainians are suffering because their leaders are corrupt. No other reason. If Canada or Mexico were stupid enough to do what the Ukrainians did and have done for more than a decade, the Americans would have done worse to them than the Russians have done in Ukraine.
Tough having a powerful neighbour but only absolute idiots are stupid enough to enter into military alliances with their enemies and work to destroy them.
And let us not forget the Ukrainian neo-Nazi fascists working to murder and repress ethnic Russians in Ukraine. Under UN regulations the Russians have every right to go in and protect them.
no dear, ukrainians are suffering because they live in a bad neighborhood. their neighbors acquired 11 time zones over the last 2 or 3 centuries and ukraine also was in their empire then. now it is trying to assert its independence. but you are so brainwashed that the US is evil and russia is good that you accept their empire lustings as a good thing. it is unbelievable but i guess with the help of meershimer you cannot let go of this view.
Only a fool would say Russians were good and Americans were bad. This is why it is important to rely on facts. Whatever flaws the Russians may have they are benign compared to American hegemonic wars and slaughter over half a century.
And the facts make it clear the Russians wanted peace and to be a part of Europe after the Soviet Union fell and the Americans would allow neither.
It is very clear from words and actions that the Russians are protecting their borders, do not want to annexe all of Ukraine, are protecting ethnic Russians in Ukraine and have tried to avoid this war and to stop it.
Ukraine has been a part of Russia for most of its existence. It gained independence after 1991 and that was clearly a stupid idea. Ukraine needs to work with Russia to survive and only fools think otherwise.