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There's no right and wrong, i.e., death is tragic, few people deserve being killed Every single person who dies over the next months and has been dying over the last years was someone's kid, someone else's best friend, etc. But was this situation *avoidable*? I think it was.

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Daniel

@growing_daniel

· Feb 25

Weirdos who defend Russia love saying "Putin made clear x was unacceptable" as if Putin declaring something is how we decide what is right and wrong

Daniel

@growing_daniel

Feb 25

If everybody had only done what Putin commanded, we could have avoided this whole mess

@lndian_Bronson

Feb 25

This is exactly the calculus of the US in the Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs, with respect to wishes to not have Soviet forces /allies deployed next door.

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@lndian_Bronson

Feb 26

Actually there are decades worth of Moscow protesting ever more countries being invited to join NATO and hosting US troops closer Russia, and explicitly stating that it would oppose Ukraine's accession at all costs. This became highly relevant in 2014, if you recall.

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I guess it call comes down to who’s actually relevant doesn’t it

12:07 AM · Feb 26, 2022Twitter for iPhone

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Right. Cuba was a sovereign country which wanted to host Soviet nuclear weapons. The US disagreed that this was okay to do in their own territory, and had even tried to violate their sovereignty before, for example.