alt Hacker NewsI’m not saying former soviet countries lived better under soviet imposition, but no one can be so naive to think US did that to help and free people.
When a mobster comes to you and free you from your previous mobster, it’s not because he is a good man and wants you to live freely: he does it to impose you his will and power exactly as US have always done.
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I live in one of the former soviet republics. We begged to join NATO because we experienced the joy of living under 50 years of russian occupation
How is NATO a mobster? It's a collection of countries that band together to protect each other.
The Ukraine invasion is what happens when you don't have that kind of support.
This is a very strange case of false equivalence. You might not like the US but that doesn't impact on the basic idea of NATO.
As the parent comment said, the Warsaw Pact countries pleaded to join. Even Russia wanted to join at one point. America did it for its own reasons? Good, they win and we win.