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Yes, as I said, there are enough blame to go around.
It is well known that your enemy will make use of your neighbors to stage proxy war on you. Throughout history neighboring countries often fought each others because they were, well, neighbors.
Ancient Chinese saying. Make friends from far and attack the near
Russia should have a special policy for its neighboring countries. Russia could have focus on its strength and use more oil and gas diplomacy.
It's getting clearer by the day that it's not about NATO expansion. Ukraine have already said in their negotiations that they are willing to remain neutral and not host foreign military bases, but Russia still wants them to cede territory.
There would also be no need for Putin to ramble on for an hour about how Ukraine is an artificial country and historical error, which just reveals their mentality and position towards Ukraine in the first place.
Russia could have focus on its strength and use more oil and gas diplomacy.
Some say that Ukraine's new found energy deposits could threaten their economic position, which is one of the reasons why Russia invaded them.
It's not whataboutism, it is pointing out blatant hypocrisy. Where was this spirit when the US was invading Iraq or Syria or Libya? Singapore never gave a damn about sovereignty or preventing war. Only in issues that are politically expedient. In the end, Singapore is a financial capital beholden to much of the Anglosphere, that is why it acts in a very subservient way.
He pointed to how Singapore had done the same in 1983, voting against the United States' invasion of Grenada at the UN General Assembly. Similarly, it had also opposed Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia from 1979 to 1989.
"Our 1983 vote against the US did not mean that we were an adversary of the US. The US was a close friend and continues to be so; but we still had to express our disagreement," he said.
"In a similar way, we voted against the invasion of Cambodia, but this did not mean that we endorsed the Khmer Rouge regime. In fact, we opposed what the Khmer Rouge did to its own people. But we could not accept that one country can invade another."
Again, two wrongs doesn't make one right.