Polish President Duda: Defeating Russia in Ukraine war is the only 'guarantee of peace' | CNN
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Western support for Ukraine as it defends against Russia has globally significant consequences, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday, urging Kyiv’s backers to remain steadfast.

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Western support for Ukraine as it defends against Russia has globally significant consequences, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday, urging Kyiv’s backers to remain steadfast.

“It is about making sure that Russia is not able legally to forcefully shift the borders in Europe,” Duda told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview from the United Nations headquarters in New York.

  • gnuhaut
    1046·
    9 months ago

    Putin has shown he’ll keep on invading neighbors so long as he can get away with it

    How the fuck has he shown that? How many countries has Russia invaded since Putin got into power?

    Even the US foreign policy people have been warning that Russia won’t accept NATO in Ukraine. This is why they invaded, not because Putin is a serial invader, because he very clearly isn’t. You know who are actually serial invaders? The US and their NATO entourage.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      173·
      9 months ago

      How the fuck has he shown that? How many countries has Russia invaded since Putin got into power?

      Not counting Chechnya (which should arguably have become independent after the dissolution of the USSR) and the attempts at colonialism in Africa and Arabia: Two. Georgia and Ukraine. On top of that he continued the occupation of Moldovan territory.

      The US and their NATO entourage.

      …have not annexed territory since… I’m too lazy to look it up. For the US it’s Hawaii, I think. Also comparing Russia to the US is choosing an awfully low bar. It’s like the US saying “but we imprison a smaller amount of our population than North Korea!”

    • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
      186·
      9 months ago

      Georgia and Russia is creating conditions in Moldova exactly like in Georgia and Ukraine prior to invasion. It’s pretty safe to say Moldova will be invaded in the future if Russia wins.

      Ukraine had exactly zero chance to get into NATO.

      • gnuhaut
        515·
        9 months ago

        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/30/georgia-attacks-unjustifiable-eu

        EU investigation says Tbilisi launched indiscriminate assault on South Ossetia

        An investigation into last year’s Russia-Georgia war delivered a damning indictment of President Mikheil Saakashvili today, accusing Tbilisi of launching an indiscriminate artillery barrage on the city of Tskhinvali that started the war.

        In more than 1,000 pages of analysis, documentation and witness statements, the most exhaustive inquiry into the five-day conflict dismissed Georgian claims that the artillery attack was in response to a Russian invasion, accused both sides of violations of the laws of war, indicated that war crimes had been perpetrated against Georgian civilians and rejected Russian claims of “genocide” in the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia.

        • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
          134·
          9 months ago

          Just like in Ukraine Russia created breakaway regions by funding terrorist groups or outright sending their own military ‘on vacation’ into the region. And just like in Ukraine those breakaway regions are not part of Russia so the conflict there is not an excuse for Russia to invade. And as I said this exact situation is currently developing in Moldova so we have 3 examples of this exact strategy being employed.

          • Slotos@feddit.nl
            73·
            9 months ago

            Funny how those articles the useful idiots share never link to the report in question.

            https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/HUDOC_38263_08_Annexes_ENG

            Turns out, report doesn’t claim what the articles claim. What it does do, however, is engage in a useful “both sides are to blame”, “green men didn’t have official patches”, and “think of the children human suffering” sophistry that Russians just fucking love to spin into a disinformation campaign. Oh, and it immediately starts with authors absolving themselves from any responsibility and claims of having discovered truth.