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0 sats \ 14 replies \ @kristapsk 17 Apr 2024 freebie \ parent \ on: "Should Congress Stop Funding the War in Ukraine?" Yes! econ
Yes, and collapse of Soviet Union was also provoked by USA, right? Or maybe people just didn't want to live like that anymore. Ok, maybe getting information about people abroad living differently is provocation, then yes.
That is happening everywhere. Some people just don't want to fight. Millions of Russians are leaving their country too. Still have Russian friends in Moscow, they are planning to leave, it's just not so simple right now, leaving Ukraine is simpler.
Of course the Soviet Union collapse was provoked by USA.
That was the goal of the Cold War.
That’s a bad analogy for Maidan Revolution
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There was no need for provocations, I grew up as a kid with teachings from parents and grandparents and grandgrandparents that Soviet Union is evil and Latvia will become free again some day (and you could get in trouble with KGB for talking such things back then). Same for most other non-Russians in USSR.
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Soviet Union lost Cold War.
Warsaw Pact dissolved.
Baltic States gained independence.
Ukraine gained independence.
Everything was fine until Euromaidan 2014
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No, it wasn't. Georgia 2008? Putin should have been stopped back then.
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According to academic Martin Malek, western countries did not feel it was necessary to aggravate tensions with Russia over "tiny and insignificant" Georgia.
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Same mistake West did with Czechoslovakia in 1938 (Munich Agreement).
My mistake
I forgot about 2008 in Georgia 🇬🇪
Why did Russia invade Georgia?
NATO membership potential
Stop extending NATO membership to former Soviet states and war can be averted!
Georgia invasion was 30 days or less
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So countries don't have rights to choose their destiny? NATO membership in these countries has popular support. Why? Because they are afraid of Russian invasion again, as it have happened in past centuries. Russia (Muscovy) is collapsing empire since Crimean War (1853-1856), but it doesn't want to die yet.