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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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I was 19 and I believed George W Bush when he came on TV and told Americans about WMD.
I think the blinders quickly fell from my eyes... That administration radicalized me
As for Ukraine... I didn't know enough about that country and its political history or culture to have a strong opinion about it, although I recall thinking that it was a very Iraq-like move by Putin. It still doesn't look like it was the smartest move, but 🤷 I just want to see western Ukraine ceded to Russia already so that people can stop dying for abstractions
there's a john mearschimer presentation from before the invasion that goes over a lot of it. i think it's on the university of chicago youtube page.
the other part of it is the coup/color revolution in 2014 and apparently nobody killed enough nazi collaborators back in the day.
Ah yes, I remember that stuff got really nuts there in 2014 (and 2011?). They should have let the country split then