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"All you had to do was stick to oppressing your own people, and we would've kept looking the other way..."
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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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I suspect the irritation over the previous annexation of Crimea and Ukraine's increasingly pro-Western orientation would have led to a Western response even if the invasion wasn't full scale, but it's certainly not impossible that the West would've prioritized keeping things 'calm' over protecting Ukraine's sovereignty in such a scenario.