>>18726172ok sandnigger
>>18726173this is not true. the USA, Britain and France challenged/provoked the Soviet Union multiple times. in some instance they even joined bloody wars when it was necessary. the Berlin blockade and airlift was the first of such provocations, then you had the military campaign in Korea (which prompted an actual invasion), and stuff like the positioning of missiles in Turkey which caused the Cuban missile crisis. they were scared of war but not terrified of it enough to remain paralyzed like pacifists propose we do today. neither were they afraid of testing each other's patience and limits. the only reason why Russia thought it could get away with invading Ukraine is that it believed westerners would be too scared of le World War III, which for a while (first few months) worked. see pic related. this rhetoric has its own limits: after the first ten times you repeat this shit people stop caring
