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All those Eastern European nations that joined NATO and EU without issues other than Russia stating they weren't happy.
Since he came to power more than 20 years ago, Putin has always stated that he considers the dissolution of the Soviet Union as the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century and wants to undo it. He has also always been stating that he strives for an "Eurasion Union from Lisbon to Wladivostok", with the subtext clearly being that this union should be dominated by Russia the same way the former Soviet Union was.
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We've had a damn good ride and only a bunch of imbeciles would push for further expansion targeting ex Soviet republics knowing Russia aint gonna swallow that, having one of their main naval bases in Crimea.
Russia having secured Crimea and its naval base in Sewastopol was the status quo before the outbreak of this recent war. If that had truly been Putin's main goal, he had already achieved it and didn't need to invade the rest of Ukraine. Without the invasion, there wouldn't have been massive weapon sales from the West to Ukraine, and without Western weapons, Ukraine would never ever have had the power or resources to take back Crimea or Donbass from Russia...
Also note how chopstickz, one of their propaganda trolls, just yesterday literally suggested splitting Ukraine up between Poland, Romania and Russia - a scenario which would create yet another eastward expansion of NATO and a new, lengthy NATO-Russia border on the territory of the state formerly known as Ukraine. They couldn't make it any clearer that the pretext for this invasion was always just a load of bullshit.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Sep 21 2022 08:59am