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"Invaded" implies a hostile, or at least forceful takeover. That's not what happened. In fact its local government reached out to the US and agreed to come under its wing as a de-f…

Khrushchev in particular had a strong southern accent. You can take the matter up with his granddaughter if you like: I remember my grandmother saying that Khrushchev spoke Ukraini…

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You can even go back to the 90s and promises that NATO made that it would not expand to eastern Europe And I encourage you to do so, because if you look at the actual event protoco…

It's a question of balance and proportionality. Of course it's unrealistic to expect that the status gradient simply shouldn't matter. It's perfectly natural (and useful, healthy) …

Yatsenyuk ... who decided to seek NATO membership In August 2014, and only after Russia invaded both the Crimea and the Donbas. In fact even after the invasion of just the Crimea (…

The Americans knew that NATO expansion into Ukraine could provoke Russian intervention, and they did it anyway.[0] Except they didn't. The footnote you cite describes Burns's conce…

This was going all fine until we started fucking with that Red Line. Except that's not what happened. It's just a soundbite you heard somewhere, but has no basis in reality. You ca…

I would venture that introducing fresh ideas and technologists with first principles thinking will yield better results. It could, maybe. Provided the people you appoint have some …

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Its greatest leader was Georgian, while three others were Ukrainian. That's a very odd adjective choice to apply to the Georgian one. The other 3 are usually cited as Khrushchev, B…

Trump won both the electoral and popular votes and won all the swing states. That's not what "landslide victory" means. In fact Trump's electoral total was scarcely different from …

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Israel is a democracy desperately suing for peace with its neighbors, and at no point in history has initiated a war to expand its borders (or for any other purpose). '56, '67 and …

And I certainly don't think anything about Israel requires Palestinian statelesness. But it is the explicit policy of its current government, and the overwhelming (probably safe to…