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In reply to the discussion: Boris Nemtsov's Murder May Have Been Provocation: Russian Officials [View all]politicman
(710 posts)To legitimise their crimes.
We can oppose the Iraq war all we like but the fact remains that the U.S illegally invaded and occupied Iraq under the banner of 'national security interests'.
Even worse a majority of people actually supported the initial invasion on grounds of 'national security' which tells me that As long as there is percieved to be a national security interest, then invasion and interference are a legitimate course of action.
Russia is claiming the same 'national security' excuse to interfere and invade Ukraine, so as long as the U.S continues to reserve the right to act in its national security interests, then Russia and other countries are allowed that right as well.
See it's usually America that opens the pandoras box and then complains when others use the same excuse that America does.
Sort of like the war on terror, America opened up a Pandora's box with its actions, a Pandora's box that other bad countries can now use a legitimate excuse to label dissidents as terrorists and point to American war on terror as something they are imitating.