[Sammi]

Absolutely not. He's making exactly the opposite case. America behaved too weakly towards Russia and that's how they got away with starting a bloody war.

All nations are only beholden to their own citizens and only cooperate with other nations out of self interest.

The only periods of relative peace that the world has ever seen have been during the reign of a supreme hegemonic power.

[agent_turtle]

Again, you're not making the argument you think you are.

"Russia attacked a weaker country because it is stronger. This is why we need one country to be stronger than any other country."

Mutually Assured Destruction works because of the Mutually part.

[Sammi]

You're not reading what I'm saying then. Never did I mention anything about MAD. I talked about hegemony. The opposite thing. If you insist on understanding the opposite from what I write again then I must interpret it as willful.