• RidderSport
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    1 day ago

    I was saying that there was no expansion before Russia declared war in violation of all international laws and treaties, and in violation of the treaty Russia signed that guarantees Ukrainian independence.

    Afterwards NATO grew, whether you want to call to expansion which implies that it is the goal of NATO to grow and threaten its neighbours or you just call it grow which reflects the reality of countries voluntarily joining.

    And my comparison was that you cannot threaten your neighbours with a potential war and then expect them to just await their fate without resistance. They have the right to join an alliance as has every sovereign state. They have the right to chose the political system they want as does every sovereign state.

    But NO ONE has the right to change the outline of borders by means of war. The world has lost a few million people so that everyone should have learned that lesson. Russia was apparently on the toilet at the time

    • Cleggory@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      But NO ONE has the right to change the outline of borders by means of war. The world has lost a few million people so that everyone should have learned that lesson.

      So it’s bad when Russia does it but the US is correct in backing Israel changing its borders through imperialism?

      No hypocrisy detected by you?

      • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        59 minutes ago

        They never even mentioned Israel, you just decided that was their stance so you could call them a hypocrite