My coworker is an idiot and can’t explain his own thoughts. Nice guy though.
He said he was reading and discovered that Ukrain started the Russian war by building a Dam that would starve a community of water. He didn’t know when or where, but was sure it was before any invading or annexing.
I can’t find any information on this. I’ve been googling and googling. Nothing. I can’t ask him for sources because if I get him going again he won’t stop.
Please help if you know anything.
I mean you can go around his probably fake thing by just saying none of this deserves 2 years of wars and dead civilians.
Yeah, that was essentially where it was left at. He said Ukraine broke a contract with russia (he ad pivoted to the NATO encroachment defense of the war) and I said even if there was a valid contract that legally justified war, it wouldn’t morally justify killing Ukrainians and displacing them from their homes.
That is the impasse we left it at.
Two things about this ‘NATO encroachment’ angle people like to bring up:
There was never an agreement that NATO cannot accept new members. Even Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, the person whom the agreement would have been made with, calls such a claim a myth.
One has to ask why countries want to join NATO. It is something they have to apply for, something they have to work for. Why do they want this security guarantee? Who are they afraid of?
It’s Russia. It’s Russia invading everyone around them that has pushed countries to join NATO. Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine have all been occupied by Russia. Is it a wonder why former Soviet states like Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania so badly want protection from Russian invasion? Is it a wonder why NATO accepted two new members, Sweden and Finland, after the second Russian invasion of Ukraine?
It’s pretty telling if “the death of civilians is bad” amounts to an impasse/agree to disagree situation