Nah comon bro, dont attack the source. Let’s work on the argument. We live in a post-truth world, everyone can be discredited.
Can we at least agree to call a spade a spade? Russia annexing Ukraine by force is military expansion.
Yes, but I don’t really believe Russia’s goal is to expand. I agree with the professor that Russia doesn’t have the power (but also willingness) to expand and successfully maintain a “European russian colony”.
The way I see it is: Nato e Russia decided to not expand anywhere after the cold war. However NATO broke this pact and started expanding east (when they signed the agreement there NATO and Russia were geographically very far apart). We didn’t give signs of slowing down or admitting we broke a peaceful pact, we actually accelerated and promoted “red scare” propaganda tactics to discredit Russia.
So I can clearly see Putin say: “If you only understand war then I can also use your language”.
You should read about the Orange revolution, where NATO, US and EU fabricated news and speculations about fraud and changed the election.
I just wish there was a bit more honesty with ourselves and the world. As a european, if we really want to point fingers to other people’s faults and mistakes, we should first look inside and in our past, without justifying ourselves.
but man that is not true, I just wrote that I thought the same as you but then actually read about it and changed my mind.
I agree Putin is a wannabe monach, so is many many other people in other countries. Before we judge other’s culture we should take a deep and profound look at ourselves and be honest. We never cared about Ukraine, we also use it as a pawn for global chess game.
If we follow this logic Europe should invade the states now? That would be catastrophic and kill so many innocents. War is all cool and swag until you are in one.