RE: Playing with Fire - Polish Mig-29 Transfer8 Mar 2022 23:35
My two penneth. I think Putin has lost the plot and there should have been a far better way of resolving this before waging war on the Ukrainian people, however anyone who thinks 'The West', and I include UK along with USA, is entirely blameless is naive. There's always tinder boxes based on history which we don't understand; are we to forget Northern Ireland for example? Some people thought the British were right, some, including major benefactors from USA, thought they were wrong. It's a smaller scale but there's nearly always two sides to an argument.
I will note though that I think Ukraine's attempts to join NATO have constantly been rebuked however it didn't stop their president from refusing to rule it out and regularly court the possibility. I have an element of sympathy with Russia for them being nervous about this but not to the extent that it justifies what we are seeing at the moment.