npub1lp34ft9g29rwc22sgqr0wgyfjrp6hxrceuurf5c2n4s79c9zd93sutwl3w (npub1lp3…wl3w) Who's Putin to have a say on the alliances of another sovereign and independent State? I've been to Kyiv several times before the war, and I remember seeing EU flags on the streets and meeting people who were mostly pro-Europe. If the people of a country want to take a certain political side, who's Putin to say if it's right or wrong?
Belarus is an example of a pariah State passively aligned with Moscow and governed by a dictator who keeps death penalty legal. And it borders EU and NATO country. Did we ever complain that Belarus should be aligned with us or stay neutral, or threaten to invade it and reduce it to a failed State? No, because that's not how the right to self-determination works.
About invading Russia through Ukraine - we're not in 19th century anymore. We don't need an old fashioned land invasion to attack a country, and Putin knows it quite well. And, if we really wanted a land invasion, we could also start it from Finland (a NATO member now, thanks to Putin's reckless war), Poland or any of the Baltic States. So that argument also doesn't make any sense.
Fabio Manganiello /
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2024-01-02 22:05:53
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