Reply To: Russian Tensions
“TS argues that there can be a just war.”
I do. Fighting Nazism is just.
“In the case of Ukraine, Putin conducted a humanitarian invasion and a war of national defence.”
Yes.
“It was a pre-emptive war built upon Putin’s speculation of the imagined grounds that Ukraine was an existential threat to LPR and DPR and to Russia itself from NATO eastward expansion.”
You are editorialising Alli-in with the CIA. All-in thinks that because the Guardian didn’t write about Ukraine’s troop build up and imminent invasion of the Donbass that no such thing was about to happen. Following this smooth brained ligic D-day never happened either because the Times of London never reported on the invasion plans.
“Perceived threats by Putin as no actual invasion of the separatist republics had taken place and no NATO bases had been created on Ukrainian territory.”
Ukraine invaded the republics in 2014.
“Why was not the Baltic states’ earlier actual membership seen as even a bigger threat as it created a corridor to Russia’s second city St Petersburg?”
It is a threat and it may well be dealt with. But Nazis aren’t slaughtering Russian speaking civilians on a daily basis in those countries.
“Grounds also now exist for the invasion of Finland once it formally enters NATO. Will it happen?”
Possibly if NATO bases are built there, certainly if missile silos are.
“The claim of genocide can either be 6400 DPR-LPR dead, the majority killed several years previously and the majority being armed militia rather than civilians. OCHR’s estimate is 3,106 civilian deaths (7,000–9,000 wounded) on BOTH sides of the ceasefire lines.
Or was it the cultural UN definition of genocide, the extinction of Russian (and Hungarian) languages?”
Had the Ukrainian Nazi invasion not been disrupted by Russia’s entry in to the conflict: both.
“TS has avoided connecting the war with Ukraine’s imminent membership of the EU, although it was the trigger for the Maidan protests back in 2014.”
Didn’t talk about the price of tea in China either. Not relevant.