thom w wrote:
I generaly think you know more about this stuff than I do, but I don't get this one. How many countries should we have allowed Putin to take before doing anything? Do you feel history has treated Chamberlain unfairly? If you feel it's apples and oranges, please explain. I'll listen. It looks to me like Putin was looking for any excuse to invade Ukrain. Or, possibly he was going to invade Ukrain no matter what, and he found something to blaim it on. If not NATO I believe he would have found something else. As I said before you likely have a lot more background on this than I do, but I'd sure like you to explain. I know you don't mind criticizing this country when warranted, and I respect that, but this doesn't seem wrong to me. Tragic, and scarey, but the only reasonable choice. If I'm wrong, it won't be the first time. Whatever happened, I don't believe we would say Mexico had always belonged to us, and while there would likely be collateral civilian deathes, I'm sure we wouldn't intentionaly kill civillians. I look forward to hearing from me. I doubt you'll change my mine, but maybe.
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Putin showed no appetite for invading other countries before he was pushed into it by Western meddling, especially in 2014. The US, instead, has a long history of military actions and invasions of sovereign countries. Where is the outrage about that?
2 million civilian deaths in Vietnam, and 430,000 civilian deaths in US military operations since 9/11, just to put things into perspective.