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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
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?
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it is and it isnt. there's always 2 sides to each conflict and I believe that if NATO didnt expand (not purposely, but ex soviet countries requesting to join and they in turn letting them in) then putin wouldnt have the rhetoric he needs to fuel this bullshit. Although im pretty sure he's just trying to restore the USSR and that starts with regaining Ukraine.
I agree this is 100% on him, hes the nutjob here. But in many respects the west wasnt exactly helping the situation by letting all the ex soviet bloc countries into NATO and moving the boundaries almost to his door step.