Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

At work.

when some countries get sanctioned to hell for justified invasion while other get off scott free trashing whole regions just trying to aggrandize itself, that hardly make criticism instigated by the latter anymore than worthless self-serving noise.

Yes  thank you for continuing your conversation with the other posters. Kudos Mate.

 So I gather that's a 'Yes', then? Australia etc can happily call Putin et all a right bunch of c*nts, right?

 Nice to see you're all on board with the 'Invasion apologetics'.

 Good to know.

Will you be attemping a Godwin any time soon with the old "Hitler was just a misunderstood artist" next? Or am I reaching a tad too far with that one?

 

If Australia participated in the invasion of iraq and failed to apologize or offer compensation, it certainly has no right to criticize Russia even if Russian invasion of Ukraine was unjustified,

In fact it is well justified.   This is unlike any of the invasions the US conducted after WWII, Except the 1950 invasion of North Korea and 1991 invasion of Iraq.   But those two, while justified, were less well justified than the current Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Of all the invasions the US conducted or planned to conduct after WWII, only the planned 1962 Invasion of cuba would have been equal to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine in necessity and justification, if the Soviets then had been inflexible and refused to withdraw the missiles from cuba.

But the Soviet were flexible then, as the US chose not to be now.    So the Soviets saved the US from having to conduct the justified and necessary invasion,    The US, through its total inflexibility this January. force Russia to conduct the necessary invasion.

So Russia invasion really does not deserve any of the criticism heaped on it, other than perhaps it can be conducted with more efficiency. 

i might say the responsibility of making the Russian invasion so well justified so well justified lies 70% with the US, and only a part of that 70% stems from its recent inflexibility, 20% with the Ukrainians, and 10% with EU and other NATO states.