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Originally Posted by Badhobz
This is likely unpopular, but i think NATO and to a large extent, the US, pushed Russia into this wacko ass position.
Remember cuban missile crisis? they were only attempting to put ICBMS in Cuba and the US flipped their shit. How many ICBMs are in turkey and directly pointed at Moscow? i get that everyone needs breathing room, but Putin's batshit crazy antics are the result of this western push thats constantly eating away russia's sphere of influence. Ukraine pivoting towards the west was probably the final straw that broke his ego.
If anyone puts ICBMs in latin america and pointed them towards the US you dont think there will be an outright war? i guarantee the US wont stand for it.
Putin doesnt really have a choice here. defend his outdated world views of the USSR resurgence, or let everything fall into western hands.
Although this Chinese/Indian/Pakistan/Russian alliance bs they are trying to make happen has all the markings of a Orwellian apocalypse. Good thing they all hate each other or else this might blow the fuck up even more.
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NATO is not expansionist, they are defensive. Putin is literally justifying their existence with his actions. He's already taken a part of Ukraine and got away with it, and now he wants the whole thing. It's not like NATO was trying to take over Russia.
Now he's about to annex Ukraine in order to make that claim. Do you believe him?