sycasey said:She definitely said they had biolabs. What has not been confirmed is if those labs were ever used to create bio-weapons, or if the US participated in funding of that. There's no evidence of that, except from Russian state media.Cal88 said:sycasey said:It wasn't confirmed.Cal88 said:sycasey said:Cal88 said:sycasey said:If you mean when Russia annexed Crimea and started leading separatist militia groups in the Donbas, then I agree.Cal88 said:sycasey said:The last sentence does not follow from the previous. The first blame is on the country that decided to attack.Zippergate said:
You totally missed the point as expected. We don't control Russian policy. We DO control our own policy. We pursued policies that provoked the Russian evasion. Therefore, it is perfectly reasonable to blame the war on our policies.
Can prior US policy be criticized? Of course. But the BLAME goes on Russia and Putin. They started the war.
Most serious analysts like Mearsheimer or Sachs beg to differ, stating that the war started in 2014, due to the action of the post-Maidan Coup government.
Crimeans overwhelmingly wanted to join Russia, as confirmed by their referendum and several independent/western polls.
Similarly, the seperatist movement in the Donbass was an organic movement, that is why they have managed to withstand the vastly larger Kiev army for nearly a decade.
The separatist groups were controlled by the Russian military.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_separatist_forces_in_Ukraine
This opinion is brought to you by the same Wikipedia editors who will boldly claim that the Ukrainian biolabs, whose existence was confirmed by Nuland at a congressional hearing, don't really exist...
This is your version of dajo's insisting that Putin is dead. Just pretend that Nuland never did say that Ukraine had biolabs, and keep pushing that square peg into the round hole...
You really are incorrigible, aren't you?
Rubio asked Nuland straight up if Ukraine had bioweapon labs, to which Nuland answered that Ukraine did have biolabs, and that they were very concerned about Russia getting ahold of these labs. If Ukraine didn't have bioweapon labs, she would have just answered "no", and she certainly would not have expressed fear of "Russia getting ahold of these labs".
The reason she answered the way she did is because anything less than her reply, let alone a straight negative answer, would have been a lie under oath.