(May 7, 2023 at 10:41 am)purplepurpose Wrote: Gideon Rose from Foreign Affairs on The Colbert Report in 2014, bragging about the US "stealing Russia's girlfriend" Ukraine, and admitting it could provoke Putin.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LibertarianPart...e_colbert/ (LINK TO A VIDEO).
I know it's chic to blame America for everything, but who was it who gave the order to invade? How did seizing Crimea and attacking eastern Ukraine diminish America's influence in Kyiv or increase Russian security, which is the necessary implication of your point here?