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To: marcher who wrote (185564)3/20/2022 12:46:48 PM
From: arun gera  Read Replies (1) of 219225
 
<the russian view seems to be that russia is protecting itself,
similarly to what the u.s. would do (did during the cuban missle crisis) in a similar situation and this has
nothing to do with empire building.>

I can't understand this position. So Russia has the right to be afraid. And Iraq does not?

Or 19th century empires (and their successors) are allowed to be afraid and take whatever pre-emptive actions they want when other legitimate nations are not allowed.

Or nuclear powers such as Russia are allowed to take the world to the brink of nuclear war, but other equally populated nations such as Pakistan are not?

So you are just justifying that 19th century empires have special rights. And those rights extend infinitely into the future, even though USSR and its political model collapsed on its own. How did Russia acquire the legitimate rights to its former USSR republics?

It is like the Turkish empire collapsed in the early 20th century and now Iraq (its partial successor) wants it back. After all Kuwait was part of the same Turkish empire.

Or you are saying might is right. Then you believe in realpolitic. In that case the NATO alliance is more right (more money, more countries, more military) than the Russian empire and we should get popcorn and watch till nuclear war ends everything.

-Arun
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