cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36340601

Radosław Sikorski upbraids Moscow for being “incapable of living in peace” with its neighbors following a series of incursions into NATO airspace.

Russia shouldn’t complain at the United Nations if its missiles or aircraft are shot down after entering NATO airspace, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski warned Moscow on Monday.

Sikorski was speaking at an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council in New York. The summit was convened after three Russian military jets entered Estonian airspace for 12 minutes on Sept. 19 before being repelled by Italian F-35s representing NATO.

“I have only one request to the Russian government: If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or by mistake, and gets shot down and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don’t come here to whine about it,” Sikorski said. “You have been warned.”

Not to be outdone, Sikorski sent a further barb Moscow’s way in New York: “We know you don’t care for international law, and you are incapable of living in peace with your neighbors. Your insane nationalism contains a lust for domination that will not cease until you realize that the age of empires is over and that your empire will not be rebuilt.”

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      Clearly a long con by Ukrainians to let themselves be captured and “converted” and conscripted in order to false flag and make Mother Russia look bad

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      “Okay but how would you feel if all of your neighbors joined a hostile alliance just because you spent the last 300 years constantly trying to conquer them by force and refuse to stop now? Did you ever think about it from Russia’s perspective?”

      -some dumbfuck tankie “leftist”

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          Napoleon was just trying to liberate the orcs from the Czar or whatever the line is now

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              “they cook food in water over there what the fuck”

              “They do in all of Europe as well(???)”

              “Oh my god y’all using soup as a justification for invasion?”

              Deadass y’all need to get literate

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          You and I both know that the number of times Russia has been invade by their neighbors pales in comparison to the number of times they’ve occupied or colonized their neighbors. Napoleon alone won’t do it. Obviously there was also Germany after the Great Red Brown Alliance carved up eastern Europe into colonies and the USSR ignored the allies’ repeated warnings that Germany was going to invade them. Doesn’t justify 300 years of ruthless Russian attempted conquest in literally every direction.

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            The USSR spent the decade before WWII trying to get the west to form an anti-Nazi coalition, but the west was too busy doing copious amounts of trade with the Nazis and signing treaties to do so. Even during the war, the west cloaked how much trade they were still doing, in the case of companies like Ford and Coke.

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            and the USSR ignored the allies’ repeated warnings that Germany was going to invade them

            LMAO

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            wow, that’s the hardest gymnastics i read all day, and i’ve read some pretty bad far-right punditry today.