Interesting take that amassing 100k troops on the border of another country is an act of diplomacy no matter how nuanced you thing that particular art is.Originally Posted by Raymond Holt
I do, but diplomacy is a bit more complicated than that. Let's not get too self-righteous when accusing Russia of using force to bend other countries to its will when that's what the US/UK double act do to the majority of countries on the planet.
I'm not taking sides here, but the narrative portrayed by our government and its suckling corporate media that Putin is pure evil and the US/UK is playing the noble role of 'World Police' again is just so tiring and its frustrating that we are still blind to it. Haven't we learned anything from the accusations levelled at Iraq about WMD's, for example?
Russia has a long history of fear of invasion, justified in part by recent history and has always tried to create a set of satellite states between its borders and perceived aggressors. However the idea that NATO has ambitions to invade Russian territory in the same way that Napoleon and Hitler did is laughable.
Putin seems a competent dictator. Whether the Litvinenko, Skripal or Navalny families share your view on whether he is evil or not is a matter of conjecture I suppose.
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