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ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoIf the US wanted the war, then why are they fickle with Ukraine support? Also, why does Russia care what the Ukraine does. How is NATO bothering them? [Serious, am dumb]
cosecantphi@hexbear.net 3 days ago
Russia’s border with Ukraine is its most vulnerable land border, and Ukraine in NATO means a hostile military alliance with direct access to said border with the ability to militarize it with nuclear capable cruise missiles: eurasiantimes.com/analysis-us-withdrawal-from-ant…
This was not a revanchist land grab nor was it resource motivated, the regions Russia annexed were for the most part already in a several years long civil war against the post Maidan coup government which was carrying out a campaign to ethnically cleanse eastern Ukraine of Russian speakers. By 2022 Ukraine had broken both Minsk treaties in which it promised to cease these ethnic cleansing campaigns. orinocotribune.com/former-german-chancellor-merke…
As for why the US is fickle with military support, I imagine it’s because the US is very aware by now Ukraine will lose this war and simply does not see a reason to continue wasting weaponry when the war has already served its purpose in destroying Russian relations with Europe and putting a newly minted failed state on Russia’s border for it to deal with in perpetuity.