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Originally Posted by gvitaly
I agree with you. I'm pretty sure that a country like Cuba didn't feel too secure with it's neighbor when it allowed Russian bases and missiles in it's territory. That's the official excuse(or one of) for the war. That Ukraine wanted to join NATO. It's still an excuse, but I'm pretty sure the US wouldn't allow any Russian weaponry on Canadian soil either.
This post in no way supports Russia, I'm just trying to say that the whole argument is not as black and white as some posters make it out to be. Hell people could bring up Afghanistan, or Kosovo as places Canada helped invade. Again, for good reasons, but the Russian government is giving similar reasons to the reasons given before Kosovo. Again I don't write it in order to support the Russian government(far from it, I hope the Putin is dethroned asap), but I can see how much media sways public perception of wars, and the Russian media is a well oiled machine.
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Inevitably, when you live under an authoritarian dictatorship, the Russian media and people answer to one, the dictator.