Look at what the west does to Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries. How can Russia be safe if the US don’t continue arm restriction treaties and develop space weapons against MAD?
If there’s one consistent about the Russian nation, apart from invading their neighbors, it’s whataboutism. Yes, the US does awful things but Russia does awful things and for the same reasons.
If you sum up death and influence, you are making a pro Russian argument. But I wasn’t making a moral argument. OP asked for imperialist reasons. If the US doesn’t honor UN law and isn’t made so by its allies and the other powerful nations, which other options does Russia have to be safe?
Syria? That country Russia very recently occupied to prop up a dictator who used chemical weapons against his own people? Or are we talking about a different Syria here?
Look at what the west does to Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries. How can Russia be safe if the US don’t continue arm restriction treaties and develop space weapons against MAD?
If there’s one consistent about the Russian nation, apart from invading their neighbors, it’s whataboutism. Yes, the US does awful things but Russia does awful things and for the same reasons.
I am not comparing. I am asking how Russia can be safe. OP asked about imperial reasons.
Oh my God, neither side is perfect. That means they must both be exactly the same, right??
If you sum up death and influence, you are making a pro Russian argument. But I wasn’t making a moral argument. OP asked for imperialist reasons. If the US doesn’t honor UN law and isn’t made so by its allies and the other powerful nations, which other options does Russia have to be safe?
Russia hasn’t done these things because they feel unsafe; they have their own imperialist ambitions and work steadily towards those goals.
Why do you think so? There are enough western analysts who stress the strategic importance of Ukraine for Russian security.
Syria? That country Russia very recently occupied to prop up a dictator who used chemical weapons against his own people? Or are we talking about a different Syria here?
Are we? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war
You mean the civil war between the authoritarian regime that only allowed one party to rule, and the rebels fighting for democracy?
After Congo, Iran and Chile, let’s not pretend that they were fighting for democracy.