Ukrainian War Developments

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Zichan

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Many writers here apparently believe that the reality that Western media routinely exaggerate or lie on some issues
must mean that we never should accept that Western media can report anything with tolerable accuracy or fairness.

I do not believe that Ukraine's government chose the wisest course before the war, but I don't get to choose its government.
I believe that Russia has some legitimate concerns or grievances. Nonetheless, Russia's invasion was an extreme measure.
Russia's war on Ukraine is legally and morally unjustified. Some patriotic Russians have been brave enough to say so.
I have more respect for them than for the writers who cheer on deadly violence from the safety of their armchairs.
Some IR theorists adopt an amoral view of international politics.

I think they would describe the tensions between the West and Russia that culminated in the invasion of Ukraine as an instance of a
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: what one country perceives as a purely defensive measure, the other country may perceive as an offensive measure. Structural realists like Kenneth Waltz and John Mearsheimer consider it critical to their theory.

One pertinent example is the US installation of THAAD in South Korea. Described as a purely defensive measure by the US and South Korea, but condemned by China as a destabilizing move.

In
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, the security dilemma (also referred to as the spiral model) is when the increase in one state's security (such as increasing its military strength) leads other states to fear for their own security (because they do not know if the security-increasing state intends to use its growing military for offensive purposes).
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Consequently, security-increasing measures can lead to tensions, escalation or conflict with one or more other parties, producing an outcome which no party truly desires.
 

Darkon112

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Current ruble=dollar exchange rate. Ruble strengthening again.

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FairAndUnbiased

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"Meanwhile, how about Thailand? Never colonized, never started a war."

After the fall of France in 1940, Thailand hoped that the Vichy French forces in Indochina would be too weak
to resist a Thai invasion, which aimed at regaining (at least) territory once ceded by Thailand to the French.

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"The superior
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then conducted daytime bombing runs over military targets in
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with impunity. The French retaliated with their own air attacks, but the damage they caused was less than equal."

"The Thai army swiftly overran Laos, but the French forces in Cambodia managed to rally and offer more resistance."

Japan 'mediated' a peace agreement by essentially imposing its terms upon the unhappy French and disappointed Thais.
Thailand received some territorial concessions but not as much as it had hoped for.
Nonetheless, the Thai people celebrated the successful outcome of Thailand's invasion of French Indochina.
I stand corrected. Thailand fought a winning defensive war with tactical surprise against European imperialism. Yet they still have less respect than defeated warmongers.
 

Philister

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Truck manufacturing mainly KaMAZ is going to suffer since they still use western components despite the fact they we're told to cut that off. They also lost contracts because of that from what I've read. GAZ groups URAL on he other hand is golden in terms of truck manufacturing
Yeah, civilian industry will suffer severely, turned out they didn’t build it right after 1992, but to be honest automobile industry, especially civilian ones, was never their pro
 
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