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0 pointsza3faran2y ago0 comments

> and the lesson you take away is that the US is somehow at fault

Genuine question as someone who has no connection to either government of the Russia-Ukraine war: didn't the US push Ukraine into not accepting terms with Russia, under the promise that it would support Ukraine in case of war? In other words, it pushed Ukraine into the war, using it as a proxy to fight Russia.

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khokhol2y ago

Didn't the US push Ukraine into not accepting terms with Russia, under the promise that it would support Ukraine in case of war?

The answer is "no" on both counts. The US did not "push" them into anything.

And the US made absolutely no such promise. In fact it made explicit statements to the contrary on the eve of the invasion.

Rapzid2y ago

Setting aside the fact that this is false, it's a weird claim that the USA pushed Ukraine into the war..

Pushed them into the war. Wasn't Ukraine invaded, unprovoked by any real violence or imminent threat, by Russia?

Pushed them into war. That's like blaming the victim and then blaming the friend for not telling them to cover up.

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