1) "Russia deems hegemony over Ukraine a strategic priority, and NATO expansion up to its own borders, unacceptable. America's refusal to show deference to these interests contributed to today's crisis, and will leave Ukrainians worse off in the end" is a very plausible view imo
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2) But "Russia's opposition to a Western-aligned Ukraine is a rational reflection of its defensive security interests, and Western imperialists engineered this conflict by imposing themselves on Eastern Europe/Ukraine" seems facially absurd...
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3) (The world's largest nuclear weapons state doesn't need to worry about foreign invasion, Ukraine has pursued NATO and the EU more avidly than vice versa, and Ukrainians' have strong economic and security incentives for doing this)...
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4) And I don't understand why some leftists feel compelled to link the first view with the second when doing so only serves to discredit their substantive proposition ("minimizing harm requires acquiescing to some Russian interests").
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Perhaps one distinction to make is between policies that any Russian nationalist (even the most democratic) would object to and policies that Putin (as an autocrat fearful of being overthrown) is particularly fearful of.
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