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Old 10-11-2022, 18:01   #2081
jfman
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Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
For our part, Operation Orbital (2015-2022) had trained 22,000 Ukrainian soldiers by the time the invasion began in February. It was a direct response to Russia’s invasion of Crimea. We can argue over how much more we could have done and what difference it might have made, but there’s no room for claiming we did nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operat...al?wprov=sfti1

See above. It’s almost as if you see the world the way you want to see it regardless of the facts.
A creative interpretation of the posts above, I’ll give it that.

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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
The argument is not that we did something, but we did not do what was implicit from the agreement. Had we imposed the same sanctions we have now, we may not be here today.
For some we can do absolutely no wrong. Events are interpreted in such a way we do exactly the right thing at exactly the right time. Always. Be that intervention or nothing, just pick and choose the past agreements or principles from international law to suit the occasion.
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