This got buried in @PostGameOrangeSlices blue and gold boner. But it is the crux of why Putin is such a 'mad man'.
The arrogance of the West was to continue to expand NATO east despite the red-line protestations of Russia.
If Russia or China joined in a military pact with Mexico, and just needed a little more time to get their bases in there, America rightfully[/i][/b] would put an end to that right quick. You disavow Russia employing this same logic because it doesn't fit the imperialist mores of the West.
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It's goddamned naive to think the US isn't an imperialist nation. We just have been conditioned to think the US military is the world's policemen saving democracy.
How's that worked out in the Middle East, Vietnam and Afghanistan?
It's comical to see the chickenhawks claiming Putin will continue to march through Eastern Europe if not stopped in Ukraine. That's 1960's Domino Theory.
The US is an imperialist nation?
What anti-us communist drivel is this shit?
If we were actually imperialist we would have nuked Moscow in 1946 and been literally ruling the world for 70+ years as the sole super power while enslaving anyone not American and receiving tribute instead of spending trillions on foreign aid.
Get the actual fuck outta here.
The imperialists didn't get their own guysm in there until after the Nov '63 coup.
Hope this helps.
You guysm don't know what the fuck imperialism is if you think that's what the US is up to. The US has national interests like any nation does.
It's usually the card of neo fascists to say that to conflate and justify their actual imperialism. You know, like the CCP.
When the US starts going back to boots on ground invasion followed by colonists we can talk[/i][/b]. Until then FO back to Russian Television or the Venezuelan State Broadcast with that shit.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria.
Don't forget what we do for the peoples of Yemen, though not technically boots on the ground.
We came, we saw, we Libya. The public slave auctions are a nice touch.
Where are the colonists @pawz ? Why did we give up our "colonies"? Why did we send money there instead of extracting all the wealth?
How Russia annexed Crimea? That's imperialism.
If the US was imperialist we could annex all of Canada tomorrow(and a bunch more countries to boot) and no one could do shit about it. So then, if we are in fact imperialists, why don't we?
We currently occupy 1/3rd of Syria. The oil 1/3rd.
Russia likely wouldn't have annexed Crimea had their not been a western-backed coup of UKR. Those two events are absolutely related. Putin is literally Hitler.
What makes you think we don't effectively control Canada? Remember what caused an end to the Trucker Strike? Joey placed a call to Justin. The End.
We? Could occupy 2/3rds of the world with little to no resistance. And not pay anyone for the oil. Hth.
And Putin's invasions of many of the rest of his neighbors? Keep buying the RT agitprop.
Next you'll tell me if the US hadn't sailed through the straight of Malacca the Chinese wouldn't have needed to build all those islands in the south China sea. Keep repeating the ridiculous gaslights.
We did real well in South Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. And it was no trouble at all.