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Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault
Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault
www.foreignaffairs.com Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault
The liberal delusions that provoked Putin.
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Gestures broadly to everything in Eastern Europe for last 36 years.
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Sure, Cuba is being kept down by western blockade, but truly you can't blame the Eastern-Western Europe divide on western shenanigans.
Don't get me wrong, most of Europe's 'healthy' democracies are from colonial wealth or oil money (except Finnland... They're weird bootstrap folk). But anyone directly under direct Soviet occupation kinda sufferred for it one way or the other.
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After the end of the USSR, all post Soviet countries experienced a massive drop in quality of life comparable to war time. Unemployment sky rocketed, government social safety nets were gutted, organized crime skyrocketed, and wealth inequality rise in kind. Western capitalists accelerated the liquidation of post-Soviet governments with IMF loan sharks and neoliberal austerity, which made a few people incredibly rich at the expense of millions.
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But anyone directly under direct Soviet occupation kinda sufferred (sic) for it one way or the other.
Oh noes, I can't oppress people with my inherited capital or be openly fascistic, what a nightmare! Here I go, burning my crops and murdering my livestock, can't have those filthy underpeople share what's mine in a time of drought!
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Sometimes I wish it would hide which instance people are posting from so I can just correctly assume without knowing beforehand.
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Operation Bloodstone
Operation Gladio
And so on and on
The west deliberately armed Nazis all over the world to fight communism
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I thought I was reading an article from current year and was confused why the war and current figures weren't being mentioned, just history. This piece is so precient. I bet the author has said "told you so" with so much sadness ever since Russia invaded..
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Mearsheimer has been banging this drum ever since the Crimean annexation
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I just know that there are, like, 8 liberal bin ladens fantasizing about murdering Mearsheimer everyday
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It’s so weird how liberals have become the unhinged pro-war hawks of the early 2000s while the conservatives have become the rational ones willing to actually discuss the specifics and oppose zealous jingoism. Like what the fuck did Obama do to the US to scramble everyone’s brains to have the opposite opinions
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He re-legitimated american military power in their eyes by being popular, charismatic and black while doing all the shit bush had done
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Libs seethe every time you tell them the war would never happen if the Soviet Union was still around.
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They'd smugly tell you that Ukraine was already part of Russia back then so there was no need, because different republics in the USSR apparently were purely symbolical and were just colonies of Russia. That's the lib point of view on the thing.
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Paywall :(
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