[asimpletune]

Hypocrisy? I said each side acts in their interest: NATO and Russia. My point was only to ask whose interest would readers on HN prefer prevail?

It's a simple question. Do we want to live in a world where Russia achieves their strategic goals or do we prefer to live in a world where NATO achieves their strategic goals?

NATO expansion doesn't happen illegally. It's completely voluntary. It's a defensive alliance meant as a deterrence. And countries in NATO all enjoy much higher standards of living than non-NATO countries. NATO countries all have laws to protect their citizens and they enjoy peace from invasion.

I get that Russia doesn't want that. But my point was so what? I never really denied that issue. Everybody is acting in their best interest. It's just that NATOs interests and values are also the same as my own.

There's no hypocrisy here. There's just a good and bad guy in this case. I don't see the problem here.

[littlecranky67]

The problem is you thinking you are the good guy, while it humbles oneself realizing you are just as bad as the next person.

[asimpletune]

> The problem is you thinking you are the good guy

No, the problem is the bad guy the Eastern European countries all want protection from.

I just choose to believe them when they've tried to warn the west about how bad Russia really is.