Quote (ofthevoid @ 21 Feb 2022 21:05)
I believe the agreements/arrangements he meant was those of military alliances. They signed some treaties with NATO at the end of the Cold War that NATO would not inch eastward after Germany's unification. Eventually NATO said fuck that and started gobbling up central European countries, installing military bases, missile systems, etc. closer and closer to Russia. Fast forward to 2022 and now it looks like ex-soviet states are going to be admitted into NATO and you will have a "defensive" military bases, rockets, probably nukes on Russia's border, 3 minutes from Moscow.
Idk maybe its just me but I don't really understand how people fail to see the point of view from the other side.
I get what you mean, but after reading Putin’s essay on Ukraine and listening to his recent speeches (and past ones), this doesn’t seem like “security” at all… it seems more like bringing Ukraine back because “Ukrainians and Russians are one people.” Methinks he realizes he’s on his way out, in some fashion, and he wants to be “Leninized” and become even more immortal in Russian history; the one to stand up to Western disease and begin rebuilding an empire by first bringing back Ukraine and reversing his idea of “… the worst tragedy of the 20th century [losing Ukraine].”
Not really trying to argue with anyone here, just throwing in what I’ve been thinking.