re: #28 BigBadDemocrat

Russia is playing a danger game.
If it is ok for them to do this, why would China not go after things they want and need on the Russian borders with China. What goes around comes around seems to fit.

We were talking (commenting) about this on LGF, around 2 weeks ago I think. People came up with a few “invasions” and “occupations” in modern times. But there were very few examples, and if I recall, they either involved rather small areas (with all due respect to those areas) or they were in the aftermath of World War II., when there were major migrations of hundreds of millions of people all over the place.

Sure, we invaded Iraq, but we didn’t declare that we own part of it. When Iraq did just that with Kuwait in 1990, it wasn’t tolerated.

When I’m trying to say is the same point you made above, that what Russia is doing now sets a shocking precedent for modern times. It’s doubly unfortunate that it also manages to reanimate, however slightly for now, the Cold War.