Did the USA play a significantly negative role in events leading to Ukraine invasion?

So that half crazed lynch mob that couldn't tell their arse from their elbow over in the Russia thread is what you would call 'normal scrutiny'?

The US are being blamed for a lot of stuff because they cause a lot of stuff. They are without a doubt the most aggressive nation since WW2 with countless coups and wars under their belt.

Have people such short memories? The illegal, fabricated absolute disaster with hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties that is the 2nd Iraq war? The WMD lies? The absolute clusterfuck they left behind? To name just the biggest one in the last 20 years? Who are the US to accuse anyone of illegally attacking a sovereign nation?

And of course they are up to their neck in this one too.

I wouldn't keep track of Cheerfuls claims why would I? Also I don't see how it is relevant or on topic what I might think about them.

Why are you referring to a thread 33k posts and 1.4 million views as a "half crazed lynch mob"?

"And of course they are up to their neck in this one too."

Is your claim. Yet when asked questions on this you dodged them. Are you here to discuss this or are you here soapbox and then have an infantile tantrum when your world views are questioned?

You realize Putin engineered the Gulf Wars. Iraq invaded Kuwait in response to that threat.

Sure. Putin is the decision maker in Russia, so which US president made him take the unilateral decision to launch the invasion of Ukraine and how?

And please, no tenuous links or out-of-context history, an example of this would be: "After WW1 France created the Versailles treaty and passed huge war reparations on Germany which fermented the rise of Hitler, therefore really, France caused WW2."

Because he's an out and out USA basher who thinks "his opinion" is 100% correct, and hundreds of different posters in the Russia thread are 100% wrong. The Conspiracy Theories thread is the only place on Boards that he can air his distorted views without fear of being shouted down and put in his place by a couple of dozen folk.

The sad thing is that he truly believes by going on and on and on and on about the US did this, the US did that, in almost EVERY POST he makes... that people are actually taking notice of him, and he's going to change their viewpoint. Absolutely NO-ONE is taking a blind bit of notice of his repetitive, misguided diatribe which I might add is wholly disrespectful to the hundreds of innocent children who've died and the millions of civilians who've been displaced and had their lives destroyed. Blaming the USA for what has happened is just simply despicable.

He cant seem to understand that whatever the USA have done in the past, it in no way justifies the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. But let him waste his time on countless more posts telling us the USA are to blame for everything. Effectively he's just talking to a wall.

More like defending France against Germany caused the Germans to invade it. France should really have just surrendered the country without a shot.

No links to ancient history required. Just last autumn and the massive NATO manoeuvre held in the Ukraine and the Black Sea.

And secondly when Selensky was given a forum at the MSC only a few weeks ago receiving standing ovations for amongst other things his demands on nuclear rearmament of the Ukraine.

Just those two points. How were they going to be perceived by Russia would you say? And would you say they were intentional actions or purely incidental and nothing to do with Russia whatsoever?

And yes I view NATO as a mere vehicle for US strategic interests

Ah Jesus. Not sure if serious.

Now @KingMob, I could turn the table if I thought that was a fair thing to do. I could ask what you think about Flinty's claims. Do you agree with them?

But I won't. You don't need to answer that. Just making a point.

Which btw is not me saying I agree or disagree with Cheerful. That wouldn't be fair on him either. I may well agree with some of them.

Again just making a point.

Every one include Russia have done exercises all over the place and only Russia have invaded.

Doing excerises is normal military practice.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/23/zapad-2021-what-we-learned-from-russias-massive-military-drills-a75127

That makes no sense. It's primarily for the defense of Europe and member states.

I took that as him being a big sarcastic and poking fun at your claims. If that's not the case, then I don't agree with that claim.

Your point seems to be that people are incapable of commenting on other people's opinions. That's a bit silly.

You commented on people's responses to him and his silly claims on this thread.

You aren't commenting on Cheerfuls posts either because you didn't bother to read them before complaining about people's response to him. Or you did read them and are feigning ignorance about them.

Asking your opinion on his claims and your continued refusal to actually state it show that your complaints aren't very valid.

Okay, but you didn't address the question, so I'll ask again "Putin is the decision maker in Russia, so which US president made him take the unilateral decision to launch the invasion of Ukraine and how?"

To address what you did write. Armies, including the Russian military, have maneuvers all the time. NATO, which is a defensive alliance, has been having exercises since 1951.

Secondly, Zelensky gave a speech on an agreement Russia signed in 1994 that it wouldn't attack Ukraine. It attacked 5 days later after building up forces for weeks. After years of hybrid warfare conducted against Ukraine by Putin. Again, who in the US is behind that?