Well, this reminds me of a joke:
Russia invades Ukraine.
Every country: World War 3?!
German: No, it is not World War 3.
Israel attacks Iran.
Every country: World War 3?!
German: No, it is not World War 3.
Someone: How can you be so sure?
punchline
German: Because we haven't entered it yet.
"Peacekeeping troops". 😅
They're being deployed to defend a sovereign nation from invasion, I don't know what else you would consider "peacekeeping"
"3 day special operation". 😅
They never specified how long these days were gonna be! 🙃
What? Lil bro lives in another dimension
😒
Very telling that it's a Latin saying, lol. I wanna make peace with the living, not the dead!
well the russians view themselves as the third roman empire. putin is on justinian's mad quest to reclaim his empire's ancient capital. putin wants to be czar, but one of the aspects of being czar going back to ~800 years ago is holding the home of the Kievan Rus: Kyiv. just as the romans would not stop their outward expansion until confronted with the force to stop them, neither will the russians.
NATO has basically been on the same path since its conception (check the Nazis that ended up in NATO high command!), but of course, two wrongs don't make a right.
sounds to me like we should lend aid to the indigenous people fighting to protect themselves from imperial expansionism. just like in Palestine and Africa
You're right, but I feel like it's a bit more complicated than "NATO good, Russia bad", geopolitically speaking.
I think it's pretty obvious at this point that Russia is pouring the entire future of its nation-state into keeping Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, so, I think it's probably inevitable at this point given how little international support Ukraine has by now.
Why wouldn't you need troops to stand at that border and make sure that Russia can't just regroup and invade again in 6 years? Wouldn't you call that 'Peacekeeping'?
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