The implications of calling Russia undemocratic are actually scary, that's implying you actively support western imperialism, you were happy with that bomb Biden just dropped on Somalia, because unlike Russia, America is democratic,what America does is what Americans wish the state to do.

Lmfaoooo

Russia is literally undemocratic thoigh

Call a spade a spade

Im not even blaming ukraine im blaming the west f*** is this guy talking abt

US benefitting from this, as they have from every (world) war in Europe throughout history.

"The United States’ role in this tragedy is as much about its relationship with its former imperial rivals, Germany, Italy, and France, as it is about its attempts to weaken Russia. These three powers, and the Europe they lead, incessantly threaten to spin out of the US orbit. Increasingly, they talk of strategic autonomy, while pursuing economic integration with Russia and China, to US dismay. Russian aggression provides the occasion to bind Europe more firmly to the United States, by rallying Europe against Russia through the US instrument of NATO, and pressing the continent to sever some economic ties with Russia. Germany will be expected to cancel the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, to its great disadvantage, since it will lose an inexpensive source of energy, and to the great advantage of the US liquid natural gas industry, which will fill the void with a more expensive product. While certification of the pipeline has only been suspended for now, Washington will continue to pressure Germany to cancel the pipeline altogether. The benefits of Russian aggression against Ukraine for the US investor class are so numerous, that champagne bottles must have popped in Washington and on Wall Street when the Russian president announced the beginning of his country’s military operation in Ukraine. European drift toward the Russian economy is eclipsed. NATO is strengthened, with indubitable benefits in new orders from NATO countries for arms from US weapons makers. Calls for more weapons purchases to bolster the US military will escalate; yesterday, for example, a Wall Street Journal op-ed demanded a naval build up. And the arms industry will run at full-tilt pumping weapons into Ukraine to fuel an insurgency, as Washington fights Russia to the last Ukrainian. Wars for which the United States has not participated except to act as an arms supplier have always been kind to the country’s investors; this one promises to be the same. Finally, Russian military operations, along with Western sanctions, will drain the Russian economy, weakening Russia, or at least stifle its growth, and make it less a formidable US rival. How could Wall Street not look with pleasure upon the prospects?"

The west isn't at fault for russia having a tantrum

Russia should just grow up and democratise

It's putin trying to secure his regime. The nsto explanation is inadequate on its own

Democracy doesn't have anything to do with this lmfao.

It's absolutely an adequate explanation. You're insane if you think Russia was gonna let Ukraine join a hostile military alliance

They kinda are tho.

They been pushing for these two nations to fight for almost a decade.

Yeah I Agree with everything said here.

Youre close to insane if you think Russia would have accepted neutrality

They tried that before and the Russians used gas prices to coerce ukraine into its orbit

The West is absolutely at fault for antagonising Russia and trying to bring NATO missiles to their doorstep. Putin has been warning about this s*** for years way before 2014 too mind you.

Secure his regime? It’s literally the worst possible decision he could have possibly made. Russia’s economy is gonna be in craters and he is likely to get dethroned or worst assassinated if he keeps losing like this.

It shouldn't be a point you use to vilify them considering Western powers act the same way to rest of the world. All it is is a way to divert white guilt. Would it have been fine if Russians voted on the invasion of Ukraine through a referendum instead?

Democratic peace thesis

Democracies don't tend to attack each other

Just read the English translation of his speech

This is about way more than just nato

Unless the targets are the wrong shade, the country that alleges to love democracy the most has no quelms attacking democratic or more authoritarian countries alike if they don't fit hegemony

Geopolitics for 5th graders

I've read no shortage of realist explanatjons

At the end of the day, it's about more than just nato alignment

Russia will not settle for a neutral ukraine. They want it in the Russian orbit

We’ve been influencing Ukraine by promising them an EU membership for years knowing really well they’re never gonna get it

Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Germany is committing 100 billion/year to a special fund for its armed forces

Military industrial complex eating good.

Dark times ahead.

And pushing democracy because we’re convinced the people would vote for a pro EU president

Slava Ukraini

Crazy how chaotic the world is rn. Not even including this Russia-Ukraine crisis and before that Covid and Trump. You got the Middle East crisis. China/Taiwan/South China Sea. North Korea. Israel/Palestine. India/Pakistan. Iran/Saudi Arabia. We got political instability happening in the US. The world is also due for another recession and possibly depression.

God help us. It’s a recipe for disaster rn.

well what form of government do you want to be pushed rather than democracy?

if the people voted for a pro-EU president then that's their will and Ukraine certainly has a chance at EU membership

you are insulting the intelligence of 44M people that you do not know and have never been there