• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    They wanted to prevent them from joining because they couldn’t bully them if they managed to join. I think that answers for both.

    Now your turn to answer my original question, please.

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      7 hours ago

      So the underlying, material reason for why you think Russia invaded Ukraine, was because they wanted to “bully” Ukraine? And that NATO is just an international “anti-bullying” alliance? No, lmao.

      NATO is an alliance of imperialist nations. They band together, agreeing to each exploit their own corner. The biggest players are the US Empire, as well as the former hegemons Germany, the UK, and France. The other NATO members play along so that they can ride along on this system of monopoly capitalism expropriating vast wealth from South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and more. If countries go against NATO desires economically, they get bombed, like Yugoslavia, Libya, etc.

      NATO promised Gorbachev that they wouldn’t expand eastward, decades ago. This is because originally, NATO was an anti-communist alliance. However, with the fall of the USSR, the west needed a new enemy, so they stuck with Russia even after Russia tried to join NATO. With NATO building up in Ukraine, following the Euromaidan coup of 2014 cementing the Ukrainian Nationalists as the leaders of Ukraine, and their relentless shelling of the donbass region, Russia invaded as it didn’t feel like it wanted a belligerent neighbor, and decided to take pre-emptive action.

      The entire invasion never would have happened without NATO.

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          7 hours ago

          Because it doesn’t matter. Russia hasn’t attacked NATO countries, sure. Unless you’re saying western imperialism is a good thing, and that it was correct to encircle and reject Russia’s attempts to join NATO. You’re JAQing off.

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            7 hours ago

            It doesn’t matter that Russia hasn’t attacked NATO countries but it has and currently is attacking non-NATO countries? Interesting take

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              It only makes sense if your conclusion is that, genetically, Russians just love attacking people. If you ignore the real, materialist explanation for events and substitute it with a deliberate refusal to acknowledge the actual causes, then you’re only left with racism. Earlier, your only reason was “bullying,” so if you really do believe it’s a genetic thing then that checks out.

              I’d love you to prove me wrong about that, though.

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                I was just saying that none of the members have got attacked by Russia and quite a few of the non-members have. Might be an indication of something. Not sure where you got genetics from tbh.

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                    I don’t know how you got from countries and military alliances into genetic traits to attack other countries. Pretty big leap imo.

                    I’ve heard some .ml people call NATO a virus but I didn’t think it was literal