# Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 1)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** ukraine-invasion, breaking-news\
**Created:** [February 24, 2022, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24-part-1/960037 "2022-02-24T08:30:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kedikat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@Kedikat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kedikat)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24-part-1/960037/6878 "2022-07-30T04:37:06Z")

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I am stating, not defending, some of Russia’s incentives for this. Stating facts is not championing them.  
I do in fact think that it is the U.S. that is mostly to blame for it coming to war. Not Ukraine itself. But the U.S. setting up Ukraine to use as a proxy. And that is just disgusting. I feel that certain parts of the U.S. government are willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.  
And I am freaked out about this stupid trip by Pelosi to Taiwan. Not because I think Taiwan should be consumed by China. I think it should be a sovereign nation. But the game of chicken is going to get a lot of people killed.

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