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by izacus 3105 days ago
Russia is hostile? By what metric?
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Annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Support for the only active war on Europe.

Destabilization of EU, NATO, US elections.

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Take a look at Russian TV and polls. The Russian government (TV propaganda) and people (Putin has 80+ approval) do not want to be friends. (Unless you are Syria, Iran or North Korea).

> Russia is hostile? By what metric?

Would the metric of having invaded two sovereign nations in the last few years count?

By that metric, isn’t US then the world’s enemy?
Non-American here. There has been a role switch. We've always been at war with Eastasia.

Where formerly the right harboured the deepest suspicions of Russia, the liberals have taken over the position, probably as a scapegoat for political retreats.

Posts on HN such as yours and probably mine will turn gray-white fast since if you haven't sufficiently disavowed Goldstein then you are probably a collaborator.