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> Like Ukraine started a war with Russia by economic alignment with the western powers

The ukraine war started when the US and Russia agreed to partition ukraine. Like the germans and soviets did to poland in ww2. Ukraine has no say in the matter. No more than poland did in the 1930s. Ukraine didn't start anything. Ukraine can't stop anything.

> or Poland starting a war with Germany in WW II for their offenses against German citizens.

No. The war in poland started when the Germans and the Soviets decided to divided poland up. Sound familiar?

> It's very poor form to introduce a not only controversial opinion but a wholly subjective one

It's not controversial. It's a fact. Sanctions are an act of war. Blocking trade is an act of war. You blockade 90+% of oil to a country, it's a declaration of war. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why pearl harbor happened.