(03-04-2022, 10:29 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(03-04-2022, 08:01 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: It's surprising to me that there are people on this message board defending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  It makes me wonder who they really are.

Meh, I'd never defend Russia in Ukraine.

It's wrong on every level.

I think from a lot of independent research on the Cold War I've just come to the conclusion that we were the aggressors when it came to proliferation. The only reason there are over 100,000 nuclear warheads in the world is directly because of the United States' unfounded fear of Russia.

You must've missed the part where communism requires submission.  A group of people in a capitalist country are free to decide they will practice communism amongst themselves (funnily enough it never happens. Wonder why?).  The reverse of that is impossible.  You can have periods of peace between the two ideologies, but they will inevitably meet in conflict.  Communism can't allow what most would consider to be a better alternative to exist.  Citizens of a communist regime are not going to continue to choose communism en masse given a choice which is why communist governments always wind up being authoritarian and bring the hammer down hard on anyone who doesn't tow the party line and also why they don't have an alternative political party. There can be no political debate or discourse.  You must submit. 

The aggressor is the country who no longer allows for political discourse or dissenting opinion.  I can assure you, if the U.S. scuttled its military and nukes in a show of peace and appeasement, the rest of the world would have been under Russian control shortly thereafter then and would be under Chinese control shortly thereafter today.

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