[ipaddr]

Isn't this just a repeat of the cold war where one side didn't trade with another? All while pointing enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world 4 times over.

Not sure if this strategy is the safest option globally. Russia wants a buffer from nato give them some assurance.

[nextlevelwizard]

What assurances do they need? Western world has had peace for decades and only Russians have been the aggressors in any form. They are not getting any kind of buffer in fact do to this invasion they have forced Finland and Sweden to join NATO or face the same fate as Ukraine within the next decade.

[throwaway_rsp1]

What russia is doing right now is wrong but Please read the NATO Bucharest Summit Declaration.

It has long been clear that Nato expansion would lead to tragedy. We are now paying the price for the US’s arrogance

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/28/nato-e...

[orangepurple]

You're right, absolutely nothing of note happened in the middle east 2001-2020 /s

[nextlevelwizard]

TIL Middle east is part of the Western world

[sudosysgen]

The Western world and the Middle East were both at war.

[stephen_g]

Well, if you don’t count the Yugoslavia, the Bosnian wars, etc. as being in the ‘Western world’…