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Russia Surrounded
we can theorize about this. the us decides to invade Iraq for essentially no reason. why? how? bc it can. but that ability is not absolute. its contingent. -
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wasnt Cuba also a sovereign nation joining an existing alliance? -
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again, its directly analogous. the us would not countenance this, why expect russia to accept it with no quarrels? -
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the us can behave like this bc it is a "great power". the problem is that other powers have emerged since its unipolar moment at the start of the century -
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my point is simply that there are any number of reasons, it doesnt imply that the ussr is somehow "better" -
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the us is just not going to accept military bases in a threatening position from china or russia or whoever. if china put a military base in Canada, it would invade it tomorrow -
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it's clearly directly analogous. the ussr was going to put missiles on America's door step, and america told them to back the fuck off or the nukes would start flying. so they backed off! -
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why might central american states prefer to be in the USSR's sphere of influence vs the US? -
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useful summary of Putin's public statements about the invasion: -
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its obviously a response to nato enlargement, as people have been saying for decades -
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in the same way that russian missiles in Cuba was inevitably provocative -
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this has already happened anyway, and it led to the Cuban missile crisis and the ussr backing down bc the us would not countenance it -
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suppose russia entered into a military agreement with Ireland, and put military bases there. how would you feel about that? -
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so what's the end game? we smash russia and totally subjugate it? that's not realistic -
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but at a certain point, the war ends right? and then you negotiate for peace?