• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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                  2 years ago

                  Russia started a war in Ukraine. The west started the economic war with Russia in response to that. Then Russia retaliated against the west. Russia was perfectly fine trading with the west while fighting a war in Ukraine. What part of this are you struggling with specifically?

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                    2 years ago

                    Russia started a war in Ukraine.

                    Wouldn’t that be rather continuation of the war in Donbass? Russia did invaded Ukraine and joined it, but the war was already ongoing for 8 years.

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                    2 years ago

                    Great. Finally a sane, almost friendly answer of yours. Very rare occasion.

                    Russia was perfectly fine trading with the west while fighting a war in Ukraine.

                    Yes of course, why wouldn’t Russia be fine? But you also have to acknowledge that Russia prepared for that economic war well before the current conflict. And even though EU might have started the economic war, Russia started the decrease of delivery of gas to pressure the EU.

                    But of course it is mostly the EUs fault to so heavily rely on Russia gas in the first place. In hindsight the signals of the geopolitical shift Russia took where clear even before 2014 but the EU ignored them.