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by ganeshkrishnan 983 days ago
sure,everyone against this senseless war is a "russian troll". I am old enough to remember the rabid shrieking against Iraqi war, calling them traitors, death threats to anyone against the iraqi war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_comments_on_Georg...), boycotting france because they didnt want the war (Freedom fries?)

We are sleep walking into a global disaster by interfering in everyone else war.

Blame russia for all the problems in the country. Makes it easier to blame someone else

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I agree with you that blindly attacking war critics is ugly, especially for remote wars and wars of influence.

At the same time, nobody was surprised that Russia and NATO disagreed over whose sphere of influence Ukraine resided in. The “Ukraine Problem” and how it would culminate was making it into popular foreign policy writing 50 years ago, and was part of diplomatic and intelligence strategies long before that.

Putin is getting old and sick and made a play for his legacy, hoping NATO would be too war-anxious to act. That didn’t work out.

Critics should have their voice heard because there always new questions about how to proceed, or whether past choices were well made, but that conflict was prefigured for decades and is not an “everyone else’s war”.

This is a war for the resources of East Ukraine and the Oil, Natgas in black sea; hence the Biden investment in Burisma.

This is not an ideological war (Technically no war is!) or "sphere of influence"