Does american and imperialism justify Russian and Chinese imperialism.

In the case of Ukraine, regardless of 'imperialism,' there's a specific treaty Russia violated.

There's a three-way treaty known as the [i]1994 Budapest Memorandum.[/i]

Essentially, Ukraine agreed to give up all its nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange for safety from a U.S. or Russian invasion. Russia's invasion of Ukraine violates that treaty. And as a signatory to that 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the U.S. has a definite interest in righting Putin's current wrongs.

[quote]In the final version of the deal, Russia promised not to attack Ukraine. While the U.S. and the U.K. assured Ukraine they would aid if it was attacked by Russia, that promised aid did not guarantee military support like a NATO country would receive.

In 2009, Russia and the U.S. announced that the assurances in the Budapest Memorandum would continue to remain in effect in the future.
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Russia promised [i]specifically[/i] NOT to invade Ukraine, and the U.S. promised [i]specifically[/i] to ASSIST Ukraine if the treaty were ever violated. And that's what the U.S. is doing now.

All imperialism is bad, but yes, imperialism by a democratic country is less bad.

Imperialist proxy wars kill millions of civilians. It doesn't matter how noble you may think the particular puppet-master's aims are.

In either case, no country should be justifying their actions with "well, they do it too!" It doesn't work when a child makes that appeal to their parents and it shouldn't work on the world stage.

Have you ever heard of the Minsk Accords? May I suggest some research?

I would say economic imperialism is slightly better than military imperialism. When it comes to imperialism none of these countries are good because domestic policies should not influence how we view foreign policies and actions.

all empires are bad,, all Imperialism is wrong
is the US better than the other two?
[b]marginally. [/b]

No. But really, there's not much Russian or Chinese imperialism compared to that other kind. You don't find their search engine running your mind. That's our uncle Sam.

The US is no longer a democracy and doesn't even pretend to be. Biden did not get 81000000 votes. John Fetterman did not get elected.

So the least bad bad guy wins? There are better ways.