• LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Neither. Both can be wrong. Russia protested and warned about NATO eastward expansion for decades. So what do you do?

    What pretty clearly happened is that certain elements pushed for NATO inclusion and (mostly exclusive!) EU trade well before 2008. Russia pushed for a more Russia friendly regime. Both sides interfered until the result became a devastating war.

    So every sensible person should protest in favor of peace negotiations. But that doesn’t happen. The western media portrays any peace negotiations as useless or as a ploy. I mean read the article.

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      9 months ago

      Russia protested and warned about NATO eastward expansion for decades.

      As if NATO is an entity that expands by itself huh.

      Countries. Decide. To join NATO. Recent inclusions only prove that Putin’s struggle is not about NATO at all but about Ukraine. Or, more specifically, about repeating a big win in a small war that would get him whatever his ill brain imagined.