Mavigogun wrote on 09/24/23 at 10:57:37:zevenenergie wrote on 09/18/23 at 09:50:45:Putin then drew a line and NATO crossed it.
While complicit cowards might respect the lines drawn across the home of a peaceful neighbor by a gangster state, cite it as cause for supporting genocide, those with worthy of elevation do not. Something to consider for those siding with Putler against the civilized world. As always, we choose what we make of ourselves.
We must not forget that Russia is a country that is not like America and that it is many centuries older than America.
And you should also look at what kind of warlike policies America has practiced over the past 50 years, and continues to pursue. And many countries see America as the axis of evil.
I live in the Netherlands and when you see how America dictates policy here and how our country is assessed by America on important matters, you start to look differently. The American embassy here is not a building but a small village right next to the American school for Americans in the Netherlands. If the American ambassador disagrees with the government, he intervenes.
I don,t see moral integrity and values there. Just business and abuse of power.
It is very easy to take a moral stand when you are American. But American foreign policy is anything but democratic.
No wonder Putin doesn't like it.
The Ukraine has always been Russian territory.
I also don't agree with the Russian system, but I respect it in a way.
cumunism originally arose from idealism but went off the rails, just as democracy has been going off the rails for sometime now.
The only thing I mind in Ukraine is that people were able to enjoy their freedom for a while, and that it is disappearing again under Russian rule.
For the rest, Western interference there is mainly a power game that has caused a lot of death and damage.
And that story is as old as human history.