yogthos OP , 1 month ago

This whole narrative that Russia wants more land has no basis in reality. In fact, Russia was perfectly fine with a neutral Ukraine, and tensions only started after the western backed coup happened. And even then Russia tried to find a peaceful solution for eight whole years. The reason the war happened was NATO expansion, but don’t take it from me. Here it is from the horse’s mouth. This is the head of NATO saying this openly and plainly:

The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.

So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders. He has got the exact opposite.

www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_218172.htm