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I think your answer very much explains the essence of USA incredible arrogant and bully behavior towards the rest of the world.
So you are saying that was irrelevant when you first pointed nukes on Russians? You are saying If you first point gun at me I don’t have right to defend myself? Isn’t it typical primitive bully mentality? If Russia did not show its ability to defend itself the Moscow would be another Hiroshima. ( Study my post “Psychological profile of a bully” ).
Russian writer Dostoyevski said “ If God ( you can read morals ) doesn’t exist then everything is permitted”. You think that everything is permitted in the name of American interest: Starting illegal wars on sovereign countries, Disregarding Geneva convention, Raping war prisoners, killing innocent women and children and so on and so on, everything in the name of your primitive selfish corporate capitalist interest. You remind me on bank robber who justified his crime by saying ‘ I needed money”.