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In reply to the discussion: Russian jets cross into Ukraine airspace [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)See, the difference between us is that I have no problems seeing imperialism on both sides of this particular great-power conflict. I can also figure out which one of the two imperialist sides is the bigger threat to the world (because much more powerful). It seems to be you who wants to see Russian perfidy, but not the equally consistent and morally equivalent (or worse) actions by an unaccountable set of U.S. government institutions that constitute the modern global empire.
In any case, this thread is about how the State Department advanced a naked falsehood about a supposedly aggressive action by Russia that did not actually happen. So this is what you should be big enough to acknowledge. We are having this discussion not because the Russian forces encroached on Ukrainian airspace - they didn't - but because the State Department lied and said they did. If the State Department had not lied, and if the OP had not seen fit to reproduce the lie uncritically, we would not be here in this thread.